About The Word Salad
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Salad
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What's The Definition Of Salad?
[n] food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing; usually consisting of or including greens
Synonyms | Synonyms for Salad: Related Terms | Find terms related to Salad: See Also | chicken salad | coleslaw | crab Louis | dish | fruit salad | herring salad | molded salad | pasta salad | potato salad | salad nicoise | salmagundi | slaw | tabbouleh | tabooli | tossed salad | tuna fish salad | tuna salad Salad In Webster's Dictionary \Sal"ad\ (s[a^]l"ad), n. [F. salade, OIt. salata, It.
insalata, fr. salare to salt, fr. L. sal salt. See {Salt},
and cf. {Slaw}.]
1. A preparation of vegetables, as lettuce, celery, water
cress, onions, etc., usually dressed with salt, vinegar,
oil, and spice, and eaten for giving a relish to other
food; as, lettuce salad; tomato salad, etc.
Leaves eaten raw are termed salad. --I. Watts.
2. A dish composed of chopped meat or fish, esp. chicken or
lobster, mixed with lettuce or other vegetables, and
seasoned with oil, vinegar, mustard, and other condiments;
as, chicken salad; lobster salad.
{Salad burnet} (Bot.), the common burnet ({Poterium
Sanguisorba}), sometimes eaten as a salad in Italy.
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