fetticus

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noun

corn salad or mâche, Valerianella locusta, a plant whose leaves are used in salads.

OriginDutch vette kost →
Scrabble 13
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Meanings

nounfetticus (uncountable)
  1. USuncountablecorn salad or mâche, Valerianella locusta, a plant whose leaves are used in salads.

    Earliest sown or planted — round beet, peas, forcing carrot, lettuce, radish, early cabbage, peppergrass, mustard, spinach, kohlrabi, turnip, scallion, early potato, fetticus.

    1945, Maurice Grenville Kains, Five acres and independence: a practical guide to the selection and management of the small farm

Origin

  1. Dutchvette kost“fat food”
  2. Englishfetticus

From Dutch vette kost (“fat food”).

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