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Definition of Common lettuce
1. Noun. Annual or perennial garden plant having succulent leaves used in salads; widely grown.
Terms within: Lettuce
Group relationships: Genus Lactuca, Lactuca
Generic synonyms: Lettuce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Lettuce
Literary usage of Common lettuce
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chemistry of Common Life by James Finlay Weir Johnston, Arthur Herbert Church (1891)
"If tho stem of the common lettuce, when it is coming into flower, be wounded with
a knife, a milky juice exudes. In the open air this juice gradually ..."
2. Foods and Their Adulteration: Origin, Manufacture, and Composition of Food by Harvey Washington Wiley (1917)
"The Romaine is distinguished from the common lettuce by the shape of the leaves,
which are much longer and narrower than those of ordinary lettuce. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1853)
"The different species of lettuce contain a juice which, when collected and dried,
has considerable resemblance to opium. If the stem of the common lettuce, ..."
4. An Encyclopædia of Gardening: Comprising the Theory and Practice of by John Claudius Loudon (1835)
"It is used in salads through winter and early spring, both as a substitute for
common lettuce in those seasons, and to increase the variety of small salads. ..."
5. British Phaenogamous Botany, Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of ...by William Baxter by William Baxter (1843)
"... be used in salads through the "Winter and early Spring, as a substitute for
common lettuce, to which it is said to be very little inferior. ..."
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