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 Sal·ad n.
 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.   --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.
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 salad burnet
      n 1: European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves
           that are sometimes used for salads [syn: burnet
           bloodwort, pimpernel, Poterium sanguisorba]
      2: leaves sometimes used for salad