lettuce

Meaning

Noun

• An edible plant, Lactuca sativa and its close relatives, having a head of green and/or purple leaves.
• The leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable; as a dish often mixed with other ingredients, dressing etc.
• United States paper currency; dollars.
• A strong yellow-green colour, like that of lettuce (also called lettuce green).
• weed or marijuana

Related

Similar words

• cabbage, greenbacks, sleepwort

Origin

• From Middle English letuse, of uncertain precise origin, probably from the plural form Old French laitue, derived from Latin lactūca ("lettuce"), from lac, because of the milky fluid in its stalks. Replaced Old English lēahtric.
• Likely from the green color of US banknotes.