English > Indian lettuce: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | A plant of the genus Montia having edible pleasant-tasting leaves. |
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| Member of | Montia, genus Montia | small genus of densely tufted annual herbs |
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| Narrower | blinks, blinking chickweed, water chickweed, Montia lamprosperma | small Indian lettuce of northern regions |
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| broad-leaved montia, Montia cordifolia | succulent plant with mostly basal leaves |
| toad lily, Montia chamissoi | A floating or creeping Indian lettuce having terminal racemes of pale rose flowers |
| winter purslane, miner's lettuce, Cuban spinach, Montia perfoliata | succulent herb sometimes grown as a salad or pot herb |
| Broader | herb, herbaceous plant | A plant lacking a permanent woody stem |
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