corn salad

See also: cornsalad

English

Etymology

corn + salad; plant so called from being commonly found as a weed in grain fields.

Noun

corn salad leaves

corn salad (uncountable)

1. Any of the small plants in genus Valerianella, used in salads and as a herb, especially Valerianella locusta.
2. (US) Any of various types of salad made using corn (maize).

Synonyms

• (Other common names of V. locusta): cornsalad, common corn salad, European cornsalad, field salad, lamb's lettuce, Lewiston cornsalad, mâche, milk grass, rapunzel, smooth-fruited milk grass

Derived terms

• hairy corn salad (Valerianella amarella)
• European corn salad (Valerianella carinata)
• goosefoot corn salad (Valerianella chenopodifolia)
• narrowfruit corn salad (Valerianella dentata)
• Italian corn salad (Valerianella eriocarpa)
• Texas corn salad (Valerianella florifera)
• longtube corn salad (Valerianella longiflora)
• Nuttall's corn salad (Valerianella nuttallii)
• Ozark corn salad (Valerianella ozarkana)
• Palmer's corn salad (Valerianella palmeri
• beaked corn salad (Valerianella radiata)
• narrowcell corn salad (Valerianella stenocarpa)
• Edwards Plateau corn salad (Valerianella texana)
• navel corn salad (Valerianella umbilicata)

Translations

a plant

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: خَسّ النَّعْجَة‎ m (ḵass an-naʕja), خَسّ الضَأْن‎ m (ḵass aḍ-ḍaʔn), خَسّ الْخَرُوف‎ m (ḵass al-ḵarūf)
• Catalan: herba dels canonges f
• Czech: polníček m
• Dutch: veldsla (nl)
• Estonian: põldkännak
• Finnish: vuonankaali (fi)
• French: mâche (fr) f, doucette (fr) f
• Galician: herba dos cóengos (gl) f
• German: Feldsalat (de) m, Rapunzel (de)
• Greek: λυκοτρίβολο (el) n (lykotrívolo)
• Hungarian: madársaláta (hu)
• Irish: leitís uain f
• Italian: valerianella (it) f, dolcetta f
• Norman: bourse f (Jersey)
• Polish: roszpunka f, roszponka (pl) f
• Portuguese: alface-de-cordeiro f
• Romanian: fetică (ro) f
• Russian: полево́й сала́т m (polevój salát), сала́т полево́й m (salát polevój)
• Serbo-Croatian: matovílac (sh) m, pòljska saláta f
• Spanish: canónigo (es) m
• Swedish: please add this translation if you can

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