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Definition: Lactuca |
LactucaNoun1. An herb with milky juice: lettuce; prickly lettuce. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Lactuca \Lac*tu"ca\, noun. [Latin expression, lettuce. See Lettuce.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: LactucaSynonym: genus Lactuca (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Lactuca |
| English words defined with "Lactuca": genus Lactuca ♦ Lactuca sativa, Lactuca sativa asparagina, Lactuca sativa capitata, Lactuca sativa crispa, Lactuca sativa longifolia, Lactuca scariola, Lactuca serriola, Lactucic, Lactucone, lettuce. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Lactuca": lettuce. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Lactuca": Lactucarium, Lactucone. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Lactuca" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Latin (lettuce). |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LETTUCE, n. An herb of the genus Lactuca, "Wherewith," says that pious gastronome, Hengist Pelly, "God has been pleased to reward the good and punish the wicked. For by his inner light the righteous man has discerned a manner of compounding for it a dressing to the appetency whereof a multitude of gustible condiments conspire, being reconciled and ameliorated with profusion of oil, the entire comestible making glad the heart of the godly and causing his face to shine. But the person of spiritual unworth is successfully tempted to the Adversary to eat of lettuce with destitution of oil, mustard, egg, salt and garlic, and with a rascal bath of vinegar polluted with sugar. Wherefore the person of spiritual unworth suffers an intestinal pang of strange complexity and raises the song." |
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Expressions using "Lactuca": genus Lactuca ♦ Lactuca Canadensis ♦ lactuca sativa ♦ lactuca sativa asparagina ♦ lactuca sativa capitata ♦ lactuca sativa crispa ♦ lactuca sativa longifolia ♦ lactuca scariola ♦ lactuca serriola ♦ Lactuca virosa. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lactuca virosa | 30 |
lactuca ulva | 7 |
lactuca sativa | 6 |
floridana lactuca | 6 |
canadensis lactuca | 4 |
lactuca serriola | 3 |
lactuca lechugas sativa | 2 |
biennis lactuca | 2 |
lactuca pollination | 2 |
lactuca lettuce virosa wild | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Lactuca"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 萵 (Lactuca sativa). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | actucalay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "Lactuca" (pronounced 'Lac*tu"ca'): Anasarca, Arctisca, Areca, Asarabacca, Attacca, Baraca, Barranca, Bibliotheca, Bocca, Chachalaca, Chica, Cloaca, Coca, Cuca, Dactylotheca, Dertrotheca, Endotheca, Epitheca, Erica, Eruca, Exotheca, Felucca, Fistuca, Formica, Glyptotheca, Gnathotheca, Gonotheca, Hierotheca, Hippobosca, Hydrotheca, Hypotheca, Inca, Jararaca, Lectica, lorica, malacca, Manca, Mattowacca, Mesotheca, mica, Mollusca, Musca, Myrica, Noctiluca, Oca, Ootheca, paca, Pataca, Perca, Phoca, Phytolacca, Pica, Pinacotheca, Plica, Podotheca, Polacca, Portulaca, Postfurca, Quica, Raca, Rhamphotheca, Rhinotheca, Sicca, Spermatheca, Spica, Styca, tapioca, theca, Trica, Urtica, Verruca, Vesica, Yacca, Yunca, Zimocca. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-l-t-u" | |
-1 letter: actual. | |
-3 letters: acta, caca, caul, cult, tala, talc. | |
-4 letters: aal, act, ala, alt, cat, cut, lac, lat, tau, uta. | |
-5 letters: aa, al, at, la, ta, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-l-t-u" | |
+1 letter: calctufa. | |
+2 letters: accentual, calctufas, calculate, sacculate. | |
+3 letters: accumulate, accurately, acoustical, articulacy, calculated, calculates, calculator, sacculated. | |
+4 letters: acaulescent, accentually, accountable, accountably, acculturate, accumulated, accumulates, accumulator, anacoluthic, autarchical, calculating, calculation, calculators, caricatural, casuistical, caustically, contractual, fasciculate, recalculate, sacculation, spectacular, uncatchable, unpractical. | |
+5 letters: acculturated, acculturates, accumulating, accumulation, accumulative, accumulators, acoustically, articulacies, autocratical, calculatedly, calculations, characterful, circulatable, claudication, fasciculated, inaccurately, inarticulacy, miscalculate, occupational, recalculated, recalculates, sacculations, spectaculars, ultracompact, unacceptable, unacceptably, unacclimated, uncalculated. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 63 74 75 63 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- -.-. - ..- -.-. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01100011 01110100 01110101 01100011 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a c t u c a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0063 0074 0075 0063 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46676986876967 |
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