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Lactuca

noun

an herb with milky juice: lettuce; prickly lettuce

• Syn: ↑genus Lactuca

• Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Compositae, ↑family Compositae, ↑Asteraceae, ↑family Asteraceae, ↑aster family

• Member Meronyms:

↑lettuce, ↑garden lettuce, ↑common lettuce, ↑Lactuca sativa, ↑cos lettuce, ↑romaine lettuce, ↑Lactuca sativa longifolia, ↑head lettuce, ↑Lactuca sativa capitata

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\\lakˈtükə, -k.ˈtyü-\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, lettuce — more at lettuce

: a genus of widely distributed milky-juiced herbs (family Compositae) having a beaked achene and soft white multiseriate pappus — see lettuce, prickly lettuce

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Lactuca /lak-tūˈkə/

noun

The lettuce genus of composite plants, with milky juice

ORIGIN: L lactūca, from lac, lactis milk

Useful english dictionary. 2012.