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INDIAN LETTUCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A plant of the genus Montia having edible pleasant-tasting leaves
Classified under:
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)
