Lactuca Sativa

  

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Lactuca Sativa

Definition: Lactuca Sativa

Lactuca Sativa

Noun

1. Annual or perennial garden plant having succulent leaves used in salads; widely grown.

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Specialty Definitions: Lactuca Sativa

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Botanical

Lettuce fares poorly in lowland Panama, but one occsionally sees lerf lettuce, especially on the fincas of Colonistas or in a Choco azotea (an old dugout, elevated, partly filled with dirt, and used for raieing sensitive vegetables, herbs, spices, and medicinals) (!). The inspissated juice of lettuce, known as lactucarmin, acts as a sedative and has been recommended as a substitute for opium. (references)

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Synonyms: Lactuca Sativa

Synonyms: common lettuce (n), garden lettuce (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Lactuca Sativa

English words defined with "Lactuca sativa": Lactuca sativa asparagina, Lactuca sativa capitata, Lactuca sativa crispa, Lactuca sativa longifolia, lettuce. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Lactuca Sativa" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Latin (Lettuce).

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Expressions: Lactuca Sativa

Expressions using "Lactuca sativa": lactuca sativa asparagina lactuca sativa capitata lactuca sativa crispa lactuca sativa longifolia. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lactuca Sativa

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

lactuca sativa

6
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Modern Translations: Lactuca Sativa

Language Translations for "Lactuca sativa"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

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Pig Latin

  

actucalay ativasay.(various references)

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Anagrams: Lactuca Sativa

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-a-c-c-i-l-s-t-t-u-v"

-4 letters: catalatic.

-5 letters: aciculas, cattails, staccati, statical, tactical, victuals.

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Alternative Orthography: Lactuca Sativa


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 61 63 74 75 63 61      53 61 74 69 76 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01100001 01100011 01110100 01110101 01100011 01100001 00100000 01010011 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#97 &#99 &#116 &#117 &#99 &#97 &#32 &#83 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#118 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0061 0063 0074 0075 0063 0061      0053 0061 0074 0069 0076 0061

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

466769868769672536786758867

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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