corn salad
See also: cornsalad
English
Etymology
From corn + salad; plant so called from being commonly found as a weed in grain fields.
Pronunciation
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Noun
corn salad (countable and uncountable, plural corn salads)
- Any of the small plants in genus Valerianella, used in salads and as a herb, especially Valerianella locusta.
- (US) Any of various types of salad made using corn (maize).
Synonyms
common names of Valerianella locustaedit
Derived terms
- beaked corn salad (Valerianella radiata)
- Edwards Plateau corn salad (Valerianella texana)
- European corn salad (Valerianella carinata)
- goosefoot corn salad (Valerianella chenopodifolia)
- hairy corn salad (Valerianella amarella)
- Italian corn salad (Valerianella eriocarpa)
- longtube corn salad (Valerianella longiflora)
- narrowcell corn salad (Valerianella stenocarpa)
- narrowfruit corn salad (Valerianella dentata)
- navel corn salad (Valerianella umbilicata)
- Nuttall's corn salad (Valerianella nuttallii)
- Ozark corn salad (Valerianella ozarkana)
- Palmer's corn salad (Valerianella palmeri
- Texas corn salad (Valerianella florifera)
Translations
a plant
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