SALAD

salad

(noun) food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing; usually consisting of or including greens

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

salad (countable and uncountable, plural salads)

A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.

A raw vegetable of the kind used in salads.

Anagrams

• Ladas, S.D. Ala., daals

Source: Wiktionary

Sal"ad, n. Etym: [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. Leaves eaten raw termed salad. I. Watts.

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. Salad burnet (Bot.), the common burnet (Poterium Sanguisorba), sometimes eaten as a salad in Italy.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition