salad(n = noun.food) - food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing; usually consisting of or including greens;
is a kind of dish
has particulars: tossed salad, salmagundi, salad nicoise, potato salad, pasta salad, fruit salad, crab louis, herring salad, tuna fish salad, tuna salad, chicken salad, coleslaw, slaw, molded salad, tabbouleh, tabooli

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. [1913 Webster]
"Leaves eaten raw are termed salad." [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

salad, n.
1 a cold dish of various mixtures of raw or cooked vegetables or herbs, usu. seasoned with oil, vinegar, etc.
2 a vegetable or herb suitable for eating raw.

Idiom:
salad cream creamy salad-dressing. salad days a period of youthful inexperience. salad-dressing a mixture of oil, vinegar, etc., used with salad.

Etymology:
ME f. OF salade f. Prov. salada ult. f. L sal salt

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