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head lettuce

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noun

  1. any variety of the lettuce subspecies Lactuca sativa capitata, having leaves that grow in a dense rosette, especially iceberg lettuce and Boston lettuce.


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For example, there are hundreds of varieties of head lettuce.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2023

California’s outdoor head lettuce production alone was nearly four times larger, at 2.9 billion pounds.

From Reuters ● Feb. 18, 2021

Helen Allan won 25 cents in 1911 by sending The Times a “Daffydill” pun: “If Lem-on Friday beet tomato’s head lettuce squash his cocoanut.”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2019

This season he planted kale, head lettuce, peppers, eggplant, tomatoes, radishes and carrots.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2015

To the right of them, prodigious potato plants thrived in beds of rich earth; to the left were beds of radishes, head lettuce and onions.

From Panther Eye by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

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