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common lettuce

common lettuce

1.0
A leafy garden plant with crisp leaves used in salads
  • noun
  • /ˈkɑːmən ˈlɛtɪs/
translation icon : lechuga común
  • She bought a fresh head of common lettuce at the farmer's market for her salad.

Examples

  • The common lettuce grows best in cool, well-drained soil with plenty of sunlight.

  • Gardeners often choose common lettuce for its crisp texture and mild flavor.

  • I bought some common lettuce at the market.

  • The common lettuce is fresh and crisp.

  • Gardeners often choose common lettuce for its crisp texture and mild flavor.

  • She bought a fresh head of common lettuce at the farmer's market for her salad.

  • The common lettuce grows best in cool, well-drained soil with plenty of sunlight.

Synonyms

lettuce
vscommon lettuce
93 1.0

A leafy green vegetable often eaten raw in salads

is one specific cultivated garden plant rather than the general edible group
garden lettuce
vscommon lettuce
1.0

A leafy vegetable grown in gardens for fresh salads

is the standard name for this widely cultivated salad plant
Lactuca sativa
vscommon lettuce
  • Specialized
5.9

A garden plant grown for its edible leaves used in salads

is the everyday garden plant name instead of the scientific term

Surface Forms

common lettuce singular
common lettuces plural

Morphology

common + lettuce

The phrase 'common lettuce' is directly compositional: 'common' (typical, frequent) modifies 'lettuce' (the leafy vegetable), yielding the straightforward meaning 'ordinary/commonly found lettuce'. This follows regular adjective + noun composition and is cross-linguistically predictable, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

The compound common lettuce joins common, meaning 'widespread', and lettuce, a leafy plant whose old name came from the plant's 'white, milky juice'. So the name simply says it is the usual, widely grown lettuce you find in gardens and salads.