cos lettuce
- noun
- /kɔs ˈlɛtɪs/
- UK
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lechuga romana
- I always use cos lettuce in my Caesar salads for its crisp texture.
Examples
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Fresh cos lettuce was delivered to the restaurant every morning.
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The cos lettuce was fresh and crunchy.
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They planted rows of cos lettuce in their vegetable garden this spring.
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I bought some cos lettuce for the salad.
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I always use cos lettuce in my Caesar salads for its crisp texture.
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Fresh cos lettuce was delivered to the restaurant every morning.
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They planted rows of cos lettuce in their vegetable garden this spring.
Synonyms
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2.4
A long leafy lettuce with dark green, crisp leaves used in salads
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2.8
A long, crisp vegetable with dark green leaves used in salads
A lettuce with long crisp dark green leaves used in salads
A lettuce with long dark green spoon-shaped leaves often used in salads
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a variety of lettuce' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'cos' (a named variety/type) with 'lettuce' (the vegetable), following the common noun-modifier + head-noun pattern. This compositional structure is cross-linguistically familiar (e.g., 'romaine lettuce' / 'lechuga romana'), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Cos lettuce may come from the Greek island Cos, where this long, crisp lettuce was grown and sent to other places, so people began to call the vegetable by the island's name. That's why cos lettuce now means the long, crunchy 'romaine' lettuce used in salads.