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Definition of Cos lettuce

1. Noun. Lettuce with long dark-green spoon-shaped leaves.

2. Noun. Lettuce with long dark-green leaves in a loosely packed elongated head.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cos Lettuce

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Literary usage of Cos lettuce

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1873)
"A fine, brown, Bath cos lettuce. Alexandra.—A fine strain of Paris White. Hardy White (Hicks).—Another of the Paris White Cos tribe. Sugarloaf. ..."

2. Salads and Sauces by Thomas Jefferson Murrey (1884)
"If it is to be eaten with a mixture of sugar and vinegar, the coarser and more ill-favored and bitter cos lettuce you can procure the better, ..."

3. Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries and Their Practical Application by Luther Burbank, John Whitson, Robert John, Henry Smith Williams, Luther Burbank Society (1914)
"The cos lettuce requires too much care in blanching, and in our dry American ... In working with the cos lettuce I endeavored to get a more solid head which ..."

4. How to Make a Vegetable Garden: A Practical and Suggestive Manual for the by Edith Loring Fullerton (1905)
"The former was sown in April and was ready for the Express cos lettuce at the eating stage table on July 4th; the latter, planted in May, was ready the end ..."

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