Indian lettuce

noun

1

: round-leaved wintergreen

2

: american columbo

3

: miner's lettuce

4

: a perennial Asian wild lettuce with a branching cluster of small yellow flowers and long thin leaves that are sometimes eaten raw or cooked

called also Indian salad

Word History

Etymology

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