common corn salad
- noun
:
lechuga de cordero
- The chef added fresh common corn salad to the spring greens mix.
Examples
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You can grow common corn salad in your garden for an early harvest of tender leaves.
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Common corn salad is sometimes found growing wild as a weed in fields.
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I love adding common corn salad to my lunch.
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Try common corn salad today!
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Common corn salad is a popular addition to salad dishes due to its fresh and crispy leaves.
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In spring, many gardeners grow common corn salad for its tasty greens.
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For a healthy meal, I often include common corn salad among my vegetables.
Synonyms
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A small annual plant with tender edible leaves used in salads
A small leafy green with a mild nutty taste often eaten in salads
A small leafy plant with mild leaves eaten raw in salads
Surface Forms
Morphology
The element 'salad' signals an edible leafy green so a learner who knows the words can infer this refers to a plant used in salads, and 'common' suggests it is a usual/ordinary variety. However, 'corn' is misleading (many learners will think of maize) and the specific species/usage (a particular small salad green, sometimes a weed) is not fully derivable, so the overall meaning is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Common corn salad gets its name from the way it grew: the small plant often popped up in fields of corn (an old word for 'grain') and people picked its little leaves for salad. So, 'common' shows it was found a lot, and the name explains why it means the small leafy plant we eat as a 'salad green'.