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Indian lettuce

noun

a plant of the genus Montia having edible pleasant-tasting leaves

• Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant

• Hyponyms:

↑broad-leaved montia, ↑Montia cordifolia, ↑blinks, ↑blinking chickweed, ↑water chickweed, ↑Montia lamprosperma, ↑toad lily, ↑Montia chamissoi, ↑winter purslane, ↑miner's lettuce, ↑Cuban spinach, ↑Montia perfoliata

• Member Holonyms: ↑Montia, ↑genus Montia

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noun

Usage: usually capitalized I

Etymology: indian (II) 2

1. : round-leaved wintergreen

2. : american columbo

3. : a succulent herb (Montia perfoliata) of the Pacific coast of No. America; broadly : a plant of the genus Montia (as blinks)

Useful english dictionary. 2012.