salad

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A dish of raw leafy green vegetables, often tossed with pieces of other raw or cooked vegetables, fruit, cheese, or other ingredients and served with a dressing.
• noun The course of a meal consisting of this dish.
• noun A cold dish of chopped vegetables, fruit, meat, fish, eggs, or other food, usually prepared with a dressing, such as mayonnaise.
• noun A green vegetable or herb used in salad, especially lettuce.
• noun A varied mixture.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun See sallet.
• noun Raw herbs, such as lettuce, endive, radishes, green mustard, land- and water-cresses, celery, or young onions, cut up and variously dressed, as with eggs, salt, mustard, oil, vinegar, etc.
• noun Herbs for use as salad: colloquially restricted in the United States to lettuce.
• noun A dish composed of some kind of meat, chopped and mixed with uncooked herbs, and seasoned with various condiments: as, chicken salad; lobster salad.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A preparation of vegetables, as lettuce, celery, water cress, onions, etc., usually dressed with salt, vinegar, oil, and spice, and eaten for giving a relish to other food
• noun A dish composed of chopped meat or fish, esp. chicken or lobster, mixed with lettuce or other vegetables, and seasoned with oil, vinegar, mustard, and other condiments.
• noun (Bot.) the common burnet (Poterium Sanguisorba), sometimes eaten as a salad in Italy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.
• noun A raw vegetable of the kind used in salads.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing; usually consisting of or including greens