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Definition of Butterhead lettuce
1. Noun. Lettuce with relatively soft leaves in a loose head; easily broken or bruised.
Specialized synonyms: Buttercrunch, Bibb Lettuce, Boston Lettuce
Group relationships: Head Lettuce, Lactuca Sativa Capitata
Literary usage of Butterhead lettuce
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Laitues, chicorées frisées, et scaroles =edited by [Anonymus AC03539612] edited by [Anonymus AC03539612] (2002)
"... I - Minimum requis photo 40: Heart formation of butterhead lettuce grown in
the open - Class I - Minimum required photo 41 : Formation de La pomme d'une ..."
2. The Home Vegetable Garden by Adolph Kruhm (1914)
"The best butterhead lettuce in this class is All Seasons, with Deacon as a close
rival. All Seasons may be described as a black-seeded Deacon. ..."
3. House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d by United States Congress. House (1872)
"Large wbite butterhead lettuce grew finely in Clarke County. Kentucky; sown March
11, it was fit for use April 20. In Sullivan County, Tennessee, ..."
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