celery

en-noun

celery (usually uncountable, plural celeries)

From French céleri, from Lombard sèller, from Latin selīnum, from Ancient Greek σέλῑνον (sélīnon). Displaced English march (“celery, smallage”) and smallage (“wild celery”).

(uncountable, vegetable) The stalks of this herb eaten as a vegetable.


cucumber

Tok Pisin: kukamba

→ Cherokee: ᎦᎦᎹ (gagama)

→ Plains Cree: kohkompaninawak

→ Spanish: cacombra

→ Welsh: ciwcymbr

→ Zulu: îkhukhámba

From Middle English cucumer, cucumber, from Old French cocombre, ultimately from Latin cucumis, cucumerem (possibly through an Old Occitan intermediate). Probably of Pre-Italic substrate origin.

[…]for it has been a common ſaying of phyſicians in England, that a cucumber ſhould be well ſliced, and dreſſed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.

1785, James Boswell, quoting Samuel Johnson, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnſon […] , London: Henry Baldwin, page 356:

"Why, pepper and salt your reasons!" cried Curl, forgetting to look at the door for a moment: "your pamphlet has talent; but talent is like a cucumber, nothing without the dressing. You must be more personal."

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Publishing”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 14:

(vegetable) The edible fruit of this plant, having a green rind and crisp white flesh.


cabbage

cabbage (countable and uncountable, plural cabbages)

Sranan Tongo: kabisi

→ Abenaki: kabij

→ Swahili: kabichi

→ Yoruba: kábéèjì

From Middle English caboche, cabage (“cabbage”; “a certain fish”), a borrowing from Anglo-Norman caboche (“head”), a northern variant of caboce, of uncertain origin. Some authorities derive it from Latin caput (“head”), others from ca- (said to be an expressive prefix) + boce (“hump; bump”) (whence English boss).

inh

person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage

Cabbage is good for you.

(uncountable, vegetable) The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.


lettuce

en-noun

lettuce (countable and uncountable, plural lettuces)

From Middle English letuse, of uncertain precise origin, probably from the plural form Old French laitues, derived from Latin lactūca (“lettuce”), from lac (“milk”), because of the milky fluid in its stalks. Replaced Old English lēahtric.
(money): Likely from the green color of US banknotes.

I’ll have a ham sandwich with lettuce and tomato.

(uncountable, vegetable) The leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable; as a dish often mixed with other ingredients, dressing etc.

sallatë

the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish


rapunzel

Campanula rapunculus
Campanula rapunculus#Translingual

(plants, vegetable) A plant with leaves and crisp roots which have been used in salads, rampion, Campanula rapunculus.

Valerianella locusta
Valerianella locusta#Translingual

(plants, vegetable) A plant with leaves which are used in salads, corn salad or mâche, Valerianella locusta.