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cabbage lettuce

British  

noun

  1. any of several varieties of lettuce that have roundish flattened heads resembling cabbages

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Raw vegetables — cabbage, lettuce, enoki and shiitake mushrooms, half a brussels sprout and a cherry tomato on a wooden spear — waited on a nearby plate.

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2018

Purple broccoli, purple cauliflower, purple carrots and purple bok choy now have pride of place in the seed catalogue kaleidoscope, along with the more customary purple cabbage, lettuce and beans.

From Washington Post • Jul. 25, 2017

On a recent fall day, Toshiaki Uegaki was tending one of his small fields, cut through with neat rows of cabbage, lettuce, onions, radishes and turnips.

From Washington Post

They were all wildly hungry and one suggested they raid the factory’s vegetable garden, where there were cabbage, lettuce, cucumbers, eggplant, and radishes.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

Where occur in nature our cabbage, lettuce, etc., in the condition in which we see them in our kitchen-gardens?

From Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)

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