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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads;
[syn: salad burnet, burnet bloodwort, pimpernel, Poterium sanguisorba]

2. leaves sometimes used for salad;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Salad \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. [1913 Webster] Leaves eaten raw are termed salad. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Salad burnet (Bot.), the common burnet (Poterium Sanguisorba), sometimes eaten as a salad in Italy. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

salad burnet n 1: European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads [syn: salad burnet, burnet bloodwort, pimpernel, Poterium sanguisorba] 2: leaves sometimes used for salad