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单词 garden lettuce
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garden lettuce
a. Any plant of the genus Lactuca (family Asteraceae ( Compositae)) comprising annual and perennial plants with milky sap, native chiefly to north temperate regions; esp. (more fully garden lettuce) any of numerous cultivated varieties of Lactuca sativa, a short-stemmed plant with edible leaves used in salads or (less commonly) cooked as a vegetable. Also (as a mass noun): the leaves of this plant, or a number of these plants collectively.cabbage-, cos, prickly, romaine, wild lettuce, etc.: see the first element.
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c1300 Holy Cross (Laud) l. 598 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 18 A fair herbe, þat men cleopez letuse.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. xcii. 982 Letuse hatte lactuca... Þerof is double kynde, wilde and tame.
a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 351 (MED) Make poudre..& distempere it wiþ þe iuys of lactuce & plaunteyn.
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) ii. l. 176 Letuce is to be sette in Ianyueer.
1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 12 Yet ben in the gardynes..Letews porselane.
1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 39 Breade steped in white brothe, with sodden lettyse, or cykorie, are good to be vsed.
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 26 Muche vse of lettes hurteth the eysight.
1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. viii. f. 24 When the yonge lactuse beginne to growe, I cutte of the bitter and sower stalkes from the same.
1614 J. Cooke Greenes Tu Quoque L 3 b Did I eate any Lettice to supper last night, that I am so sleepie.
1651–3 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. for Year (1678) 108 A dish of Lettice and a clear Fountain can cool all my Heat.
1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 100 It is very fine Broth which he is served up in; the Lettice are very choyce ones.
1733 A. Pope 1st Satire 2nd Bk. Horace Imitated ii. i. 7 If your Point be Rest, [take] Lettuce and Cowslip Wine.
1776 R. Edmeades Gentleman & Lady's Gardener Dec. 91 Examine Cauliflowers and Lettuces under frames, pull off decayed leaves and stir up the earth betwixt them with your fingers.
1821 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 17 318 Among others, the Lactuca sativa, or common garden lettuce, had long been known to possess narcotic properties.
1828 C. McIntosh Pract. Gardener 123 The crops of lettuce sown upon slight hot-beds will be ready by the end of the month to plant out in sheltered places.
1876 J. Harley Royle's Man. Materia Med. (ed. 6) 540 Lettuce has glaucous vertical leaves.
1905 H. W. Collingwood Farmer's Garden i. 7 Garden lettuce is a narcotic; it induces quiet and actually helps those who cannot sleep if eaten at night.
1930 A. Ransome Swallows & Amazons vi. 71 Mother says I must give you plenty of lettuces and peas and things, or else you'll all get scurvy.
1988 J. Allen Awaiting Developments (1989) iv. 42 She tweezed up some lettuce with the wooden tongs and dropped it onto my plate.
2008 Hobby Farms May–June 43/1 Thin any succession plantings of lettuce, beets and Swiss chard.
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