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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.)
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}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
lettuce
n 1: any of various plants of the genus Lactuca
2: leaves of any of various plants of Lactuca sativa
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
LETTUCE, n. An herb of the genus _Lactuca_, "Wherewith," says that
pious gastronome, Hengist Pelly, "God has been pleased to reward the
good and punish the wicked. For by his inner light the righteous man
has discerned a manner of compounding for it a dressing to the
appetency whereof a multitude of gustible condiments conspire, being
reconciled and ameliorated with profusion of oil, the entire
comestible making glad the heart of the godly and causing his face to
shine. But the person of spiritual unworth is successfully tempted to
the Adversary to eat of lettuce with destitution of oil, mustard, egg,
salt and garlic, and with a rascal bath of vinegar polluted with
sugar. Wherefore the person of spiritual unworth suffers an
intestinal pang of strange complexity and raises the song."
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