sea lettuce

English

Ulva lactuca

Noun

sea lettuce (plural sea lettuces)

1. Any of several edible seaweeds of the genus Ulva.
2. Similar seaweed species of other genera:
   1. Monostroma spp., also known as the slender sea lettuce, a kind of algae.
3. Scaevola taccada, also known as the beach cabbage, a terrestrial flowering plant species that is native to coastal regions of the Indo-Pacific.
4. Dudleya caespitosa, also known as the sand lettuce, a terrestrial flowering plant species that is endemic to coastal areas of California

Derived terms

• slender sea lettuce

Translations

seaweed of genus Ulva

• Basque: itsas uraza
• Breton: saladenn-vor f, glandour glas m, kaol-glas, kaolaj m
• Catalan: enciam de mar m
• Czech: porost locikový m
• Danish: havsalat c
• Dutch: zeesla (nl) f
• French: laitue de mer (fr) f
• German: Meersalat m
• Greek:

  Ancient: βρύον n (brúon)

• Hawaiian: limu pālahalaha
• Hungarian: tengerisaláta (hu)
• Irish: glasán m
• Italian: lattuga di mare f
• Japanese: 石蓴 (ja) (あおさ, aosa)
• Maori: karengo, tupata, makawe (mi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: havsalat m

  Nynorsk: havsalat m

• Okinawan: 石蓴 (あーさ, āsa)
• Polish: błonica sałatowa (pl) f, sałata morska f, ulwa f
• Portuguese: alface-do-mar (pt) f
• Scottish Gaelic: glasag, leatas cuain
• Slovene: morska solata f
• Spanish: lechuga de mar f, luche verde m
• Swedish: havssallat c
• Welsh: letysen fôr f, gwylaeth y môr f

slender sea lettuce — see slender sea lettuce

beach cabbage — see beach cabbage

sand lettuce — see sand lettuce