iceberg lettuce
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iceberg lettuce
n.
A variety of lettuce with crisp, pale green leaves that form a compact, round head.
[From its pale color.]
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iceberg lettuce
n
(Cookery) a type of lettuce with very crisp pale leaves tightly enfolded
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ice′berg let′tuce
n.
a variety of lettuce having a cabbagelike head of crisp leaves.
[1890–95]
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Noun | 1. | iceberg lettuce - lettuce with crisp tightly packed light-green leaves in a firm head; "iceberg is still the most popular lettuce" lettuce - leaves of any of various plants of Lactuca sativa head lettuce, Lactuca sativa capitata - distinguished by leaves arranged in a dense rosette that develop into a compact ball |
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