A small succulent plant, Valerianella olitoria, or Lamb's-Lettuce, found wild in cornfields, and cultivated as an early salad.
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| 释义 | the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > leaf vegetables > other leaf vegetables (10) corn-salad1597 A small succulent plant, Valerianella olitoria, or Lamb's-Lettuce, found wild in cornfields, and cultivated as an early salad. palmetto1598 Now usually in form palmito. The young terminal leaf bud of a palmetto or other palm, eaten as a salad in the West Indies, Latin America, etc. Cf… frost-blite1711 fat hen, Chenopodium album (family Amaranthaceae), a widespread annual weed having leaves with a frost-like white coating. corn rocket1731 a salad plant, Bunias (or Crambe)orientalis. Welsh onion1731 a bulbless onion, cultivated for its leafy tops; = chibol, n. 1. milk grass1746 †(a) corn salad, Valerianella locusta (obsolete); (b) Caribbean a kind of spurge (cf. milkweed, n. 1). square-podded rocket1753 lamb's quarter1773 (a) Atriplex hastata or patula; (b) Chenopodium album. Shawnee salad1780 a perennial herb, Hydrophyllum virginianum, native to eastern North America and bearing clusters of white or purple flowers. palmiste1835 Any of several palms of Mauritius and the Seychelles; (also) the edible bud of such a palm (cf. palmetto, n. 2). |
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