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Definition of Shawnee salad

1. Noun. Showy perennial herb with white flowers; leaves sometimes used as edible greens in southeastern United States.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shawnee Salad

Literary usage of Shawnee salad

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

1. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its by James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1853)
"... gathered some herbs on the bottoms of Cumberland, which some of the company called shawnee salad. Tuesday, 28th.—Set out very early this morning; ..."

2. The Works of Theodore Roosevelt by Theodore Roosevelt (1896)
"... but buffalo were plenty and they hunted them steadily for their meat; and they also made what some of them called "shawnee salad" from a kind of green ..."

3. The Winning of the West by Theodore Roosevelt (1889)
"... hunted them steadily for their meat; and they also made what some of them called " shawnee salad" from a kind of green herb that grew in the bottoms. ..."

4. The Winning of the West by Theodore Roosevelt (1889)
"... hunted them steadily for their meat; and they also made what some of them called " shawnee salad " from a kind of green herb that grew in the bottoms. ..."

5. The Winning of the West by Theodore Roosevelt (1900)
"... hunted them steadily for their meat; and they also made what some of them called " shawnee salad " from a kind of green herb that grew in the bottoms. ..."

6. The Winning of the West by Theodore Roosevelt (1889)
"... hunted them steadily for their meat; and they also made what some of them called " shawnee salad" from a kind of green herb that grew in the bottoms. ..."

7. ...Pioneers of the Mississippi Valley by Charles A[lexander] McMurry (1904)
"They also made what was called shawnee salad, from a kind of green herb that grew in the bottoms." It was not till the 24th of April that they reached Big ..."

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