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lettuce
A	noun
	1	lettuce
				leaves of any of various plants of Lactuca sativa
		Category Tree: entity ╚substance; matter ╚solid ╚food ╚produce; green goods; green groceries; garden truck ╚vegetable; veggie ╚greens; green; leafy vegetable ╚salad green; salad greens ╚lettuce ╚leaf lettuce; loose-leaf lettuce ╚cos; cos lettuce; romaine; romaine lettuce ╚crisphead lettuce; iceberg lettuce; iceberg ╚butterhead lettuce
	2	lettuce
				any of various plants of the genus Lactuca
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚living thing; animate thing ╚organism; being ╚plant; flora; plant life ╚vascular plant; tracheophyte ╚herb; herbaceous plant ╚lettuce ╚celtuce; stem lettuce; Lactuca sativa asparagina ╚leaf lettuce; Lactuca sativa crispa ╚head lettuce; Lactuca sativa capitata ╚cos lettuce; romaine lettuce; Lactuca sativa longifolia ╚garden lettuce; common lettuce; Lactuca sativa
	3	boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum
				informal terms for money
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚social relation ╚communication ╚signal; signaling; sign ╚indicator ╚reference point; point of reference; reference ╚standard; criterion; measure; touchstone ╚medium of exchange; monetary system ╚money ╚boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum

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