let|tuce

let|tuce
let|tuce «LEHT ihs», noun.
1. the large, crisp, green leaves of a garden plant that are used in salad.
2. the plant itself. It belongs to the composite family. There are many types of lettuce, including loose-leaved and head varieties.
3. any one of various plants resembling lettuce.
4. Slang. paper money: »

It takes a lot of lettuce these days just to bring home the bacon (Maclean's).

╂[< Old French laituës, plural of laituë < Latin lactūca lettuce < lac, lactis milk (because of the milky juice of the plant)]

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