Lettuce - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Lettuce : (noun)
1: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum]
2: any of various plants of the genus Lactuca
3: leaves of any of various plants of Lactuca sativa

Based on WordNet 2.0

Lettuce : \Let"tuce\ (l[e^]t"t[i^]s), n. [OE. letuce, prob. through Old French from some Late Latin derivative of L. lactuca lettuce, which, according to Varro, is fr. lac, lactis, milk, on account of the milky white juice which flows from it when it is cut: cf. F. laitue. Cf. Lacteal, Lactucic.] (Bot.) Lactuca_({L._sativa">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.

Hare's lettuce, Lamb's lettuce. See under Hare, and Lamb.

Lettuce opium. See Lactucarium.

Sea lettuce, certain papery green seaweeds of the genus Ulva.

Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)

Example Usage of Lettuce
	ilovejv33: @laurenmikael hahaha hopefully i'll be in bed within a half hour, i don't feel good at all, and i keep smelling Lettuce & it's making me gag
	Specialfork911: @wellyboots1 serve cooked falafel in pita bread w Lettuce, tomato, tahini (or yogurt sauce) salt & pepper. tweet if you need sauce recipes
	annamated: I love that macca's is trying to make iceberg Lettuce sound fancy. I mean ch'mon. Its iceberg!!

Lettuce - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Example Usage of Lettuce