Definition of Boston lettuce

1. Noun. Lettuce with relatively soft leaves.

Generic synonyms: Butterhead Lettuce

Lexicographical Neighbors of Boston Lettuce

Bosporus
Bosporus Bridge
Boston
Boston Harbor
Boston Mess
Boston Tea Party
Boston baked beans
Boston brahmin
Boston brown bread
Boston bull
Boston crab
Boston cream pie
Boston exanthema
Boston fern
Boston ivy
Boston lettuce
Boston opium
Boston rocker
Boston terrier
Bostonese
Bostoneses
Bostonian
Bostonians
Bostonite
Bostonites
Boswell
Boswellia
Boswellia carteri
Boswellia serrata
Boswellian

Literary usage of Boston lettuce

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions by Massachusetts Horticultural Society (1902)
"The headed varieties are called boston lettuce all over the country, for the market gardeners of Boston and vicinity have done more than any others to bring ..."

2. Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. by Massachusetts Horticultural Society, W.D. Ticknor & Co, James Englebert Teschemacher (1902)
"The headed varieties are called boston lettuce all over the country, for the market gardeners of Boston and vicinity have done more than any others to bring ..."

3. The Malone Cook Book by Mrs George Hawkins (1917)
"Take heart heads of boston lettuce, wash thoroughly and drain. Cut each head in quarters not cutting quite through ..."

4. Farm and Forest edited by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1911)
"The headed varieties are called boston lettuce all over the country, for the market gardeners of Boston and vicinity have done more than any others to bring ..."

5. How to Make School Gardens: A Manual for Teachers and Pupils by Herbert Daniel Hemenway (1903)
"Set out one row of Hartford Bronzed Head Lettuce plants seven feet from north end, and one row Big boston lettuce plants four feet from south end, ..."

6. Putnam's Minute-a-day English: For Busy People by Edwin Hamlin Carr (1921)
"Apply the sounds to Boston (let'is) lettuce. Let us buy some boston lettuce. 293 G, ITS J Sound g as j, and apply the sound to trag' trag' edy tragedy ..."

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