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lactuca latin

I asked how two people could live on lettuce alone.

And we hadn't got any more of those nice lettuce you know.

The two men who started the great lettuce war 17 years ago are dead.

They just simply take a head of lettuce and use it.

Now take a piece of lettuce to show others the way.

Lettuce pray for a third series if the second is any good.

He ate lettuce and would often walk to those in the room.

China accounts for around half of the world's total lettuce production.

The only food found in the house were a few tomatoes and a head of lettuce.

With lettuce, where you're only interested in the leaves, light is not as much an issue.

The prices of both keep going up, and the folks with enough lettuce to buy them don't seem to mind.

When ready to serve, add the lettuce and toss well.

In future I must pick over words like lettuce for salad.

It was then very early in the season for lettuces.

They were growing lettuce in just four days - practically while you wait!

I put the lettuce in some ice water to crisp.

Winter lettuce should be used fresh straight from the garden.

Except for celery and lettuce, the food looks very good.

Can I blame it all on the woman with the lettuce?

Instead, for example, his family buys a head of lettuce.

Use the lettuce leaves as a boat to hold the chicken.

She had a chop; and there was still some lettuce.

Did she have a piece of lettuce stuck in her teeth?

You just have to give them lettuce and check their water."

They will not stay healthy if fed only on lettuce.

The larvae have been reared on Lactuca species.

U. lactuca is locally used in Scotland in soups and salads.

The larvae feed on Ipomoea and Lactuca species.

The common types of lettuce grown are the Butterhead (Lactuca sativa var.

Sea lettuce (Ulva lactuca), is used in Scotland where it is added to soups and salads.

Acteon lactuca (author unknown)

Lactuca canadensis (N)

Lactuca x morssii (N)

Lactuca saligna (I)

Lactuca x aogashimaensis : (Japan)

Lactuca crepidioides : (China)

Lactuca hallaisanensis ; (Korea)

Lactuca x impura : (Morocco)

Lactuca mulgedioides : (Kurdistan)

Lactuca procumbens : (India)

Lactuca rapunculoides : (Himalaya)

Lactuca retrorsidens : (Borneo)

Lactuca scarioloides : (Iran)

Lactuca spinidens : (Siberia)

The adults feed primarily on algae of the genus Ulva, especially sea lettuce Ulva lactuca.

Lettuce spread to the Greeks and Romans, the latter of whom gave it the name "lactuca", from which the English "lettuce" is ultimately derived.

Lactuca sonchoides : (Asia Minor)

Some, like sea-lettuce (Ulva lactuca ) thrive on the highly saline water of the southern bay and on the abundant nitrogen and phosphorus.

This wild lettuce has an abundant white latex (hence the Latin name lactuca of the species, meaning milk) containing the substance "lactucarium" with many medicinal properties.

The Romans referred to lettuce as lactuca (lac meaning milk in Latin), an allusion to the white substance, now called latex, exuded by cut stems.