wild lettuce
any of various uncultivated species of lettuce, growing as weeds in fields and waste places, especially a North American species, Lactuca canadensis.
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How to use wild lettuce in a sentence
Besides cocillana the preparation contains two other obsolete drugs, wild lettuce and euphorbia pilulifera.
The wild lettuce yields down for the humming-bird's nest, and the flowers of whiteweed are used by the kingbird and cedar-bird.
A Year in the Fields | John BurroughsBack in the meadows where thistles and wild lettuce are going to seed, the hard-bills spend their holidays.
Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road | Katharine Lee BatesGrasses and wild lettuce were next to alfalfa in importance.
Natural History of the Prairie Vole (Mammalian Genus Microtus) | E. W. JamesonMany grasslands have a stand of dandelions; sow thistle, wild lettuce, and ragweed were also common in some grasslands.
Natural History of the Prairie Vole (Mammalian Genus Microtus) | E. W. Jameson
British Dictionary definitions for wild lettuce
any of several uncultivated lettuce plants, such as Lactuca serriola (or L. scariola) of Eurasia and L. canadensis (horseweed) of North America, which grow as weeds and have yellow or blue flowers, milky juice in the stem, and prickly leaves: family Asteraceae (composites)
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