Salad
Salad (sal"ad) , noun
[French salade, OIt. salata, Italian insalata, from salare to salt, from Latin sal salt. See Salt, and compare 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.
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.
Collocations (1)
Salad burnet (Botany) , the common burnet (Poterium Sanguisorba), sometimes eaten as a salad in Italy.