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Lactuca
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Lac-tu′ca
,Noun.
[L., lettuce. See
Lettuce
.] (Bot.)
A genus of composite herbs, several of which are cultivated for salad; lettuce.
Definition 2024
Lactuca
Lactuca
See also: lactuca
Translingual
Lactuca serriola
Proper noun
Lactuca f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae – the lettuces.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II - clades; Asterales - order; Asteraceae - family; Cichorioideae - subfamily; Cichorieae - tribe; Lactucinae - subtribe
Hyponyms
- (genus): Lactuca sativa - type species. For more species see
Lactuca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
lactuca
lactuca
See also: Lactuca
Latin
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lactuca
Noun
lactūca f (genitive lactūcae); first declension
Inflection
First declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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nominative | lactūca | lactūcae |
genitive | lactūcae | lactūcārum |
dative | lactūcae | lactūcīs |
accusative | lactūcam | lactūcās |
ablative | lactūcā | lactūcīs |
vocative | lactūca | lactūcae |
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Descendants
References
- lactuca in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lactuca in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “lactuca”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- lactuca in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray