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fetticus

fetticus noun: corn salad or mâche, Valerianella locusta, a plant whose leaves are used in salads.

Noun

fetticus (uncountable)

  1. (US) corn salad or mâche, Valerianella locusta, a plant whose leaves are used in salads.
    • Earliest sown or planted — round beet, peas, forcing carrot, lettuce, radish, early cabbage, peppergrass, mustard, spinach, kohlrabi, turnip, scallion, early potato, fetticus.1945, Maurice Grenville Kains, Five acres and independence: a practical guide to the selection and management of the small farm

Origin of fetticus

From Dutch vette kost (“fat food”).

Questions about fetticus

What does fetticus mean?
Fetticus means corn salad or mâche, Valerianella locusta, a plant whose leaves are used in salads.
What part of speech is fetticus?
Fetticus is a noun.

Words near fetticus in the dictionary

  1. Fetters Hot Springs-Agua Caliente
  2. Fettes
  3. Fettesian
  4. Fettesians
  5. fetti
  6. fetticus
  7. Fettig
  8. Fettigs
  9. fetting
  10. fettle
  11. fettled

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