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- noun A
lettuce (such as Iceberg) with crisp tightly packed light-green leaves in a firm head.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Co. in the late 19th century, and the general type, known as crisphead, is older still.
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The pale, watery crisphead variety known as iceberg triumphed in the United States due to a combination of its durability in shipping and storage—it brought lettuce to the American table year-round in the 1920s—and its refreshing, crunchy-wet texture.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The pale, watery crisphead variety known as iceberg triumphed in the United States due to a combination of its durability in shipping and storage—it brought lettuce to the American table year-round in the 1920s—and its refreshing, crunchy-wet texture.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Butter lettuce: One of two varieties of head lettuce the other being crisphead.
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* Iceberg lettuce - A variety of crisphead lettuce, iceberg is prized for its crispness and longevity in the refrigerator.
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'crisphead lettuce' were the result of a complicated breeding programme in the US between the wars.
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