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PRICKLY LETTUCE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does prickly lettuce mean?

• PRICKLY LETTUCE (noun)
The noun PRICKLY LETTUCE has 1 sense:

1. European annual wild lettuce having prickly stems; a troublesome weed in parts of United States

Familiarity information: PRICKLY LETTUCE used as a noun is very rare.

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• PRICKLY LETTUCE (noun)

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Meaning:

European annual wild lettuce having prickly stems; a troublesome weed in parts of United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

horse thistle; Lactuca scariola; Lactuca serriola; prickly lettuce

Hypernyms ("prickly lettuce" is a kind of...):

compass flower; compass plant (any of several plants having leaves so arranged on the axis as to indicate the cardinal points of the compass)

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