Salad /(săl"ad)/

Sal·ad

Salad

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.
  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.

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