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☆ bibb lettuce (bib)

a type of butterhead lettuce, formed in loose heads of very crisp, dark-green leaves

Etymology: after Jack Bibb (1789-1884), Kentucky horticulturist who developed it

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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