salad

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sal|ad /s'æləd/ (salads)
1 [N-VAR]
A salad is a mixture of raw or cold foods such as lettuce, cucumber, and tomatoes. It is often served with other food as part of a meal.
...a salad of tomato, onion and cucumber.
...potato salad.
see also fruit salad
2 [PHRASE]
If you refer to your salad days, you are referring to a period of your life when you were young and inexperienced. (LITERARY)
The Grand Hotel did not seem to have changed since her salad days.Caesar sal|ad /s'iːzər s'æləd/ (Caesar salads)
also caesar salad
[N-VAR]
Caesar salad is a type of salad containing lettuce, eggs, cheese, and small pieces of fried bread, served with a dressing of oil, vinegar, and herbs.fruit sal|ad (fruit salads)
[N-VAR]
Fruit salad is a mixture of pieces of different kinds of fruit. It is usually eaten as a dessert.green sal|ad (green salads)
[N-VAR]
A green salad is a salad made mainly with lettuce and other green vegetables.sal|ad bowl (salad bowls)
[N-COUNT]
A salad bowl is a large bowl from which salad is served at a meal.sal|ad cream (salad creams)
[N-MASS]
Salad cream is a pale yellow creamy sauce that you eat with salad.sal|ad dress|ing (salad dressings)
[N-MASS]
Salad dressing is a mixture of oil, vinegar, herbs, and other flavourings, which you pour over a salad.
...low-calorie salad dressings.side sal|ad (side salads)
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A side salad is a bowl of salad for one person which is served with a main meal.

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