lettuces
- 1Plural of lettuce.
The farmer harvested rows of crisp lettuces before the morning frost.
Several heads of romaine and butter lettuces filled the market stall.
Note
The plural belongs to the plant, not the salad. You count lettuces when you mean whole heads or distinct kinds growing in a bed, and the strong yellow-green color can be pluralized as well. The leaves on a plate stay uncountable (some lettuce, not some lettuces), and so do the slang uses for US dollars, marijuana or long curly hair. None of those ever takes this form.
lettuces is a form of lettuce
lettuce, noun: The edible leaves of the salad plant, eaten as a vegetable and often mixed with other ingredients and dressing into a dish. Full entry
- Forms
- lettucelettuces plural
- Spelling
- lettuce → lettuces: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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