corn salad

n.
Any of several plants of the genus Valerianella, especially a Eurasian annual (V. locusta or V. olitoria), having small, white to pale bluish flowers and edible young leaves used in salads or as a potherb. Also called lamb's lettuce, mache.

Winter salad vegetable, Valeriana olitoria, also known as lamb's lettuce.

Native to Europe, corn salad has nothing to do with corn . . . But it is used in salads. The narrow, dark green leaves of this plant are tender and have a tangy, nutlike flavor. In addition to being used as a salad green, corn salad can also be steamed and served as a vegetable. Though it's often found growing wild in American cornfields, it's considered a "gourmet" green and is therefore expensive and hard to find. It doesn't keep well and should be used within a day or two of purchase. Corn salad should be washed and drained completely of any excess moisture before being stored airtight in a plastic bag. It's also called field salad, field lettuce, lamb's lettuce and mâche.

[Etymology: E. Mache; Germany 1876-1954] radiation physics Of radioactive emanation, that which sets up a saturation electric current of 10^-3 statampere, = 3.6 × 10^-10 curie = 1.368~ Bq.

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