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butterhead lettuce

butterhead lettuce noun: boston lettuce.

Noun

butterhead lettuce (countable and uncountable, plural butterhead lettuces)

  1. Boston lettuce
    • Satur Farms in Cutchogue, N.Y., grows lush heads of herbaceous, velvety tender green and red butterhead lettuce, picking them daily and trucking them to several New York markets, including Fresh Direct, where they are $3.29 each, and Gourmet Garage, $3.99.2007 June 13, Florence Fabricant, “A New Yogurt Maker, With an Eye on Earth”, in New York Times

Forms of butterhead lettuce

pluralbutterhead lettuces

Questions about butterhead lettuce

What does butterhead lettuce mean?
Butterhead lettuce means boston lettuce.
What part of speech is butterhead lettuce?
Butterhead lettuce is a noun.
What is the plural of butterhead lettuce?
The plural of butterhead lettuce is butterhead lettuces.

Words near butterhead lettuce in the dictionary

  1. butterflyfishes
  2. butterflying
  3. butterflylike
  4. butterflyweed
  5. butterhead
  6. butterhead lettuce
  7. butterhead lettuces
  8. butterheads
  9. butterhorn
  10. butterhorns
  11. butterier

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