crisphead
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crisphead (plural crispheads)
A lettuce (such as iceberg lettuce) with crisp tightly packed light-green leaves in a firm head.
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After the 1940s, with the development of iceberg lettuce, 95 percent of the lettuce grown and consumed in the US was crisphead lettuce.
The lettuce variety celtuce is grown for its stem, used in Chinese cooking * Summercrisp – Also called Batavian or French crisp, this lettuce is midway between the crisphead and leaf types.