Meaning | greens suitable for eating uncooked as in salads. |
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Synonym | salad greens |
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Narrower | celtuce | leaves having celery-like stems eaten raw or cooked |
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chicory, curly endive | Crisp spiky leaves with somewhat bitter taste |
chicory escarole, endive, escarole | Variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges |
cress | pungent leaves of any of numerous cruciferous herbs |
lettuce | leaves of any of various plants of Lactuca sativa |
salad burnet | leaves sometimes used for salad |
Broader | greens, green, leafy vegetable | Any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables |
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