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Definition of Common corn salad
1. Noun. Widely cultivated as a salad crop and pot herb; often a weed.
Generic synonyms: Corn Salad
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Literary usage of Common corn salad
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1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"These plants are mostly native to the Mediterranean region. V. oli- toria Is the
common Corn Salad and I '. eriocarpa the Italian Corn Salad. ..."
2. An Encyclopædia of Gardening: Comprising the Theory and Practice of by John Claudius Loudon (1835)
"... is milder in flavour, and comes earlier into use, than the common corn-salad ;
it is also good, dressed in early spring, as a spinach. (Gard. ..."
3. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America: Containing Full Descriptions of by Fearing Burr (1874)
"... Salad. yil. and differs from the common corn salad in its ... valuable for
salad purposes than those of some of the varieties of the common corn salad. ..."
4. Salads and Sauces by Thomas Jefferson Murrey (1884)
"The Italian corn salad is a distinct species, and differs from the common corn
salad in its foliage, and to some extent in its general habit. ..."
5. Rambles in search of wild flowers, and how to distinguish them by Margaret Plues (1879)
"The common corn salad, or Lamb's Lettuce (Fe'dia ... 41. is with pleasure eaten
with vinegar, common corn salad, salt, and oile, as other salades be, ..."
6. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"... Common Corn-Salad, or Lamb's Lettuce, has globos«, compressed, inflated,
glabrous, oblique, 2-lobed fruit ; the limb of the calyx almost wanting ..."
7. The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists Magazine by Joseph Harrison (1851)
"Corn Salad,—This is the common Corn Salad, which is now more u-ed than it has
been in this conntry ; but it is likely to be superseded by the Italian Corn ..."
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