boston lettuce

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   lettuce with relatively soft leaves

   Broaderbutterhead lettuce

Questions about boston lettuce

What does boston lettuce mean?

boston lettuce means "lettuce with relatively soft leaves".

Is boston lettuce a common word?

boston lettuce is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.