cos lettuce

Questions about cos lettuce

What does cos lettuce mean?

cos lettuce means "lettuce with long dark-green spoon-shaped leaves". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for cos lettuce?

Close synonyms include romaine lettuce, Lactuca sativa longifolia, cos, romaine, romaine lettuce. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cos lettuce a common word?

cos lettuce is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.