wild lettuce

noun

1

a

: a weedy lettuce that is an escape from a cultivated strain

b

: any of several native wild plants of the genus Lactuca: such as

(1)

: prickly lettuce

(2)

: a blue lettuce (L. pulchella)

(3)

: a tall North American herb (L. canadensis) that resembles prickly lettuce but lacks spines

2

: false wintergreen

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