lettuce
Plural: lettuces
Noun
- A leafy green vegetable, widely cultivated for salads.
- informal terms for money
- any of various plants of the genus Lactuca
- leaves of any of various plants of Lactuca sativa
- An edible plant, Lactuca sativa and its close relatives, having a head of green 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 color, like that of lettuce (also called lettuce green).
- Marijuana.
- Long, curly hair, as worn by followers of bro culture.
Examples
- I’ll have a ham sandwich with lettuce and tomato.
- Playing ’LETTUCE’ felt wholesome, but didn’t earn as many points as a more exotic word.
- Twenty dollars an hour? That's a lot of lettuce!
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English letuse, of uncertain precise origin, probably from the plural form Old French laitues, derived from Latin lactūca (“lettuce”), from lac (“milk”), because of the milky fluid in its stalks. Replaced Old English lēahtric.
(money): Likely from the green color of US banknotes.
Synonyms
boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum, greenbacks, sleepwort
Scrabble Score: 9
lettuce: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordlettuce: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
lettuce: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary