INDIAN LETTUCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Indian lettuce mean? 

• INDIAN LETTUCE (noun)
  The noun INDIAN LETTUCE has 1 sense:

1. a plant of the genus Montia having edible pleasant-tasting leaves

  Familiarity information: INDIAN LETTUCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDIAN LETTUCE (noun)

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Meaning:

A plant of the genus Montia having edible pleasant-tasting leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Indian lettuce" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Indian lettuce"):

broad-leaved montia; Montia cordifolia (succulent plant with mostly basal leaves; stem bears 1 pair of broadly ovate or heart-shaped leaves and a loose raceme of 3-10 white flowers; western North America)

blinking chickweed; blinks; Montia lamprosperma; water chickweed (small Indian lettuce of northern regions)

Montia chamissoi; toad lily (a floating or creeping Indian lettuce having terminal racemes of pale rose flowers; wet areas at high elevations of western North America)

Cuban spinach; miner's lettuce; Montia perfoliata; winter purslane (succulent herb sometimes grown as a salad or pot herb; grows on dunes and waste ground of Pacific coast of North America)

Holonyms ("Indian lettuce" is a member of...):

genus Montia; Montia (small genus of densely tufted annual herbs; north temperate regions and South America and tropical Africa and Asia)