romaine lettuce

Questions about romaine lettuce

What does romaine lettuce mean?

romaine 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 romaine lettuce?

Close synonyms include cos lettuce, Lactuca sativa longifolia, cos, cos lettuce, romaine. 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 romaine lettuce a common word?

romaine 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.