corn salad

corn salad

See also: cornsalad

English

Etymology

corn + salad; plant so called from being commonly found as a weed in grain fields.

Noun

corn salad leaves

corn salad (uncountable)

1. (US) Any of various types of salad made using corn (maize)
2. Any of the small plants in genus Valerianella, used in salads and as an herb, especially Valerianella locusta.

Synonyms

• (Other common names of V. locusta): cornsalad, common corn salad, European cornsalad, field salad, lamb's lettuce, Lewiston cornsalad, mâche, milk grass, rapunzel, smooth-fruited milk grass

Derived terms

• hairy corn salad (Valerianella amarella)
• European corn salad (Valerianella carinata)
• goosefoot corn salad (Valerianella chenopodifolia)
• narrowfruit corn salad (Valerianella dentata)
• Italian corn salad (Valerianella eriocarpa)
• Texas corn salad (Valerianella florifera)
• longtube corn salad (Valerianella longiflora)
• Nuttall's corn salad (Valerianella nuttallii)
• Ozark corn salad (Valerianella ozarkana)
• Palmer's corn salad (Valerianella palmeri
• beaked corn salad (Valerianella radiata)
• narrowcell corn salad (Valerianella stenocarpa)
• Edwards Plateau corn salad (Valerianella texana)
• navel corn salad (Valerianella umbilicata)

Translations

a plant

Czech: polníček m Dutch: veldsla (nl) French: mâche (fr) f, doucette (fr) f Galician: herba dos cóengos (gl) f German: Feldsalat (de) m, Rapunzel (de) Irish: leitís uain f

Italian: valerianella (it) f, dolcetta f Norman: bourse f (Jersey) Polish: roszpunka f, roszponka (pl) f Portuguese: alface-de-cordeiro f Romanian: fetică (ro) f Spanish: canónigo m

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