lettuce
An edible plant, Lactuca sativa and its close relatives, having a head of green or purple leaves.
Other meanings
The leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable; as a dish often mixed with other ingredients, dressing etc.
“I’ll have a ham sandwich with lettuce and tomato.”
A strong yellow-green color, like that of lettuce (also called lettuce green).
A kind of
- salad green
Kinds of lettuce
- cos
- leaf lettuce
Related words
- celtuce
- cabbage lettuce
- miner's lettuce
- lettuce opium
- water-lettuce
- lettuce keeper
- lettuce leaf
- lettuceless
- lettucelike
- lettucey
- celery lettuce
- Chinese lettuce
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "lēactric" (lēahtric).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “lettuce” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.