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Lactuca sativa longifolia

Lactuca sativa longifolia

4.6
A lettuce with long dark green spoon-shaped leaves often used in salads
  • noun
  • Specialized
translation icon : lechuga romana
  • She added chopped Lactuca sativa longifolia to the Caesar salad for extra crunch.

Examples

  • The nutritionist recommended including more Lactuca sativa longifolia in your diet for its vitamin content.

  • Farmers in the region are known for growing high-quality Lactuca sativa longifolia.

  • I love adding Lactuca sativa longifolia to my salads.

  • Have you tried Lactuca sativa longifolia in your sandwiches?

  • Farmers in the region are known for growing high-quality Lactuca sativa longifolia.

  • She added chopped Lactuca sativa longifolia to the Caesar salad for extra crunch.

  • The nutritionist recommended including more Lactuca sativa longifolia in your diet for its vitamin content.

Synonyms

romaine
vsLactuca sativa longifolia
7 2.4

A long leafy lettuce with dark green, crisp leaves used in salads

emphasizes leaf shape not the loose head structure
romaine lettuce
vsLactuca sativa longifolia
3 2.8

A long, crisp vegetable with dark green leaves used in salads

describes the variety by spoon-shaped leaf form rather than use
cos lettuce
vsLactuca sativa longifolia
  • UK
2.3

A type of lettuce with long crisp dark green leaves

focuses on spoon-shaped leaves rather than head formation

Surface Forms

Lactuca sativa longifolia singular
Lactuca sativa longifolias plural

Morphology

Lactuca + sativa + longifolia

This is a Latin botanical name where 'Lactuca sativa' signals a cultivated lettuce and the epithet 'longifolia' (literally 'long-leaved') would make the meaning compositional — a long-leaved variety of lettuce. However, these are technical, non‑English terms and 'longifolia' is not glossed here, so an average B1 learner would not reliably recognise the referent without prior exposure, making the expression only partially transparent.

Etymology

Lactuca sativa longifolia comes from old Latin words. The part lactuca comes from 'lac' meaning 'milk' because the plant has a white sap, and longifolia means 'long leaves', so the name simply describes the long-leaved lettuce we call romaine.