Definition of Lettuce

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Lettuce

A composite plant of the genus Lactuca (L. sativa), the leaves of which are used as salad. Plants of this genus yield a milky juice, from which lactucarium is obtained. The commonest wild lettuce of the United States is L. Canadensis.

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Lettuce Quotations

The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.
Cesar Chavez

We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences.
Jane Elliot

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
Charles Dudley Warner

Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny.
Dashiell Hammett

It's pronounced 'Romaine,' like the lettuce.
Rebecca Romijn

It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
Beatrix Potter

Lettuce Translations

lettuce in Afrikaans is kropslaai, blaarslaai
lettuce in Danish is salat
lettuce in Dutch is salade, kropsla, latuw, sla
lettuce in Finnish is lehtisalaatti
lettuce in German is Kopfsalat
lettuce in Italian is lattuga
lettuce in Latin is lactuca
lettuce in Norwegian is bladsalat
lettuce in Portuguese is alface
lettuce in Spanish is lechuga
lettuce in Swedish is sallad

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