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    SALAD

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing; usually consisting of or including greensplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting foods and drinks

    Hypernyms ("salad" is a kind of...):

    dish (a particular item of prepared food)

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

    tossed salad (salad tossed with a dressing)

    salmagundi (cooked meats and eggs and vegetables usually arranged in rows around the plate and dressed with a salad dressing)

    salad nicoise (typically containing tomatoes and anchovies and garnished with black olives and capers)

    potato salad (any of various salads having chopped potatoes as the base)

    pasta salad (a salad having any of various pastas as the base)

    fruit salad (salad composed of fruits)

    crab Louis (lettuce and crabmeat dressed with sauce Louis)

    herring salad (based on pickled herring)

    tuna fish salad; tuna salad (salad composed primarily of chopped canned tuna fish)

    chicken salad (salad composed primarily of chopped chicken meat)

    coleslaw; slaw (basically shredded cabbage)

    molded salad (salad of meats or vegetables in gelatin)

    tabbouleh; tabooli (a finely chopped salad with tomatoes and parsley and mint and scallions and bulgur wheat)

    Credits

     Context examples: 

    I am, said he, a messenger sent by the king to find the finest salad that grows under the sun.

    (Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

    "Use the chicken then, the toughness won't matter in a salad," advised his wife.

    (Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

    Scientists assessed the strains of E. coli from infected humans and looked for the same strains in sewage, dairy farm slurry, human faeces, and contaminated foods including beef, pork, chicken, salad and fruit.

    (Wash your hands or else spread superbug E. coli, say scientists, Wikinews)

    I think they must have been taken out at random, for I am sure I tasted aniseed water, anchovy sauce, and salad dressing.

    (David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

    Then the huntsman pitied them, and told the miller to drive them back to him, and when they came, he gave them some of the good salad to eat.

    (Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

    "It's a pity Laurie isn't here to help us," began Jo, as they sat down to ice cream and salad for the second time in two days.

    (Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

    When the witch and the young lady heard of his beautiful salad, they longed to taste it, and said, Dear countryman, let us just taste it.

    (Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

    Here a general explosion of laughter cut short the 'history of salads', to the great surprise of the learned gentleman.

    (Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

    She at once made herself a salad of it, and ate it greedily.

    (Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

    We'll have lettuce and make a salad.

    (Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)


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