Bibb lettuce
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4.2
- noun
- US
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lechuga Bibb
- Bibb lettuce leaves
- Bibb lettuce salad
- head of Bibb lettuce
Examples
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So that's a bibb lettuce, gorgonzola, - prosciutto, and walnut salad.
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For a refreshing summer dish, prepare a salad with fresh Bibb lettuce and cherry tomatoes.
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I bought a head of Bibb lettuce from the farmers' market to make a healthy salad.
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You can use Bibb lettuce to add a crisp texture to your favorite sandwich.
Synonyms
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2.5
A type of lettuce with soft, tender leaves often used in salads
How Tender
Surface Forms
Morphology
Bibb + lettuce
This is transparent because 'Bibb' functions as a proper-name cultivar modifier and, when combined with 'lettuce', clearly denotes a type/variety of lettuce; a B1 learner who knows 'lettuce' and recognizes that capitalized words often name varieties will infer the meaning. The noun-noun (or name + noun) compositional pattern signaling a subtype is cross-linguistically common, so the overall sense is directly derivable from the parts.
Etymology
Bibb lettuce is named after a gardener called Bibb who grew this soft lettuce in Kentucky in the 1800s. So today Bibb lettuce refers to 'a type of lettuce with soft, tender leaves'.