lactuca

Questions about lactuca

What does lactuca mean?

lactuca means "an herb with milky juice: lettuce; prickly lettuce".

How many syllables are in lactuca?

lactuca has 3 syllables and divides as lac-tu-ca under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for lactuca?

Close synonyms include genus Lactuca. 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 lactuca a common word?

lactuca 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.