词汇 | lettuce |
词源 | lettuce. Lettuce probably takes its name from a form of the Latin lactuca, “milky juice.” The Roman gourmet Apicius wa- tered the lettuce in his garden with mead every evening so that it would taste like “green cheese cakes” when he picked it mornings. |
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