lettuce的意思|lettuce的解释-里氏词典

lettuce ['letis]

n. 莴苣, 生菜, 纸币

[医] 莴苣

lettuce

[ noun ]

informal terms for money

<noun.possession>

any of various plants of the genus Lactuca

<noun.plant>

leaves of any of various plants of Lactuca sativa

<noun.food>

Lettuce \Let"tuce\ (l[e^]t"t[i^]s), n. [OE. letuce, prob.
through Old French from some Late Latin derivative of L.
lactuca lettuce, which, according to Varro, is fr. lac,
lactis, milk, on account of the milky white juice which flows
from it when it is cut: cf. F. laitue. Cf. {Lacteal},
{Lactucic}.]
1. (Bot.) A composite plant of the genus {Lactuca} ({Lactuca
sativa}), the leaves of which are used as salad. Plants of
this genus yield a milky juice, from which lactucarium is
obtained. The commonest wild lettuce of the United States
is {Lactuca Canadensis}.

2. United States currency; dollar bills; greenbacks. [slang]
[PJC]

{Hare's lettuce}, {Lamb's lettuce}. See under {Hare}, and
{Lamb}.

{Lettuce opium}. See {Lactucarium}.

{Sea lettuce}, certain papery green seaweeds of the genus
{Ulva}.

It costs about 59 cents a pound to fly in anything she forgets, or fresh lettuce for a salad.
They included developing an optical device to automatically flush a urinal, as well as an automatic lettuce thinner, designed to thin out rows of vegetable seedlings.
To get by other times, they order lettuce, cheese, milk, car parts, furniture, even all the fixings for a party, from Stockmann's.
Most eat things like romaine lettuce and bananas, but the large milkweed bug prefers sunflower seeds and raw peanuts.
The department's Agricultural Statistics Board said Monday that lower prices for lettuce, tomatoes, cotton and milk contributed most to the February decrease.
I still recall triumphantly counting 17 pumpkin seeds on my plate of lettuce, beet and cabbage salad one evening. By day two, bets are being wagered that the solitary Englander is not going to make it, least of all with the cigarettes.
The University of Wisconsin has worked on white potatoes, North Carolina State has worked on soybeans and researchers at Purdue have experimented with lettuce.
Every day I have to send one person to go around the city to find just lettuce.' He says most goods have to be imported from Italy in small quantities, to get through the borders.
Vegetable growth was reported to be good in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, with harvests continuing for carrot, cabbage, celery and lettuce crops.
When friends grouse about a rainy forecast I'm thinking the rain is good for my lettuce.
While a big change in the price of tomatoes might at most lead to related changes in the prices of lettuce and cucumbers, the exchange rate is the main link between one country's price level and that of its trading partners.
Commercial vegetables jumped 16% in May, led by lettuce prices, while fruits rose 12%, mostly because of a continued shortage of lemons and oranges, the department said.
Any shortage was expected to be less severe because Imperial Valley growers planted about 35,000 acres to iceberg lettuce this year, up about 12 percent from 1987.
Rather than ruminate about politics, he prefers to contemplate the heft of a cabbage or the sweetness of a lettuce, raising his voice to be heard over the locusts' buzz.
In November and December, lettuce sold for $20 to $25 per carton at California shipping points, compared with $4 to $7 a year earlier.
They seem content to let the Poles trade their lettuce.
Higher prices for cattle, hogs, onions and hay were partly offset by lower prices for lettuce, milk, tomatoes and strawberries.
How do you respond to this peculiar prize without diminishing the young gardener's enthusiasm and self-esteem? "The lettuce and tomatoes are still weeks and months away, respectively, so you can't make a salad.
"I certainly have not ruled out the possibility of a tax increase," the governor said after a briefing with disaster officials in Watsonville, California's "salad bowl," where much of the state's lettuce, artichokes and berries are harvested.
The idea is to develop the best varieties of crops like potatoes, soybeans, wheat, lettuce and rice to be grown on space stations _ perhaps near the moon or Mars.
Fresh vegetable use reached 100 pounds per capita for the first time because of larger use of lettuce and onions, the report said.
Lower prices for milk, eggs, lettuce and wheat were mostly responsible for the decline from January, the department's Agricultural Statistics Board said in its preliminary report.
The price was Pounds 3,900. All seemed well, so we kept on putting in glass and growing mainly lettuce and tomatoes.
Japanese housewives will pay high prices in exchange for the service that accompanies even the purchase of a head of lettuce, especially since local prices have hardly risen in recent years.
The iceberg lettuce has ousted local varieties.
"People don't know what the products are," explained regional operations director Andy Rafalet. "Let's make the choice a little easier." Choice was easy at the salad bar: no lettuce, but lots of cabbage, a Soviet staple.
Other Burpee introductions include butterhead lettuce from France, Japanese mustard green, bush shell beans from the Caribbean, and cabbage from Alsace-Lorraine.
The department's Agricultural Statistics Board said in its preliminary report released Tuesday that lower prices for soybeans, lettuce, milk and corn were mostly responsible for the decline from the January average.
Many residents of the town of 30,000, part of California's "salad bowl" region where much of the nation's lettuce, asparagus and artichokes are grown, spread across lawns and vacant lots like refugees.
A salad of iceberg lettuce is smothered in chunky blue-cheese dressing.

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