salad \sal"ad\ sa^l"ad, n. f. salade, oit. salata, it.
   insalata, fr. salare to salt, fr. l. sal salt. see salt,
   and cf. slaw.
   1. 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; as, lettuce salad; tomato salad, etc.
      1913 webster

            leaves eaten raw are termed salad.    --i. watts.
      1913 webster

   2. 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;
      as, chicken salad; lobster salad.
      1913 webster

   salad burnet bot., the common burnet poterium
      sanguisorba, sometimes eaten as a salad in italy.
      1913 webster
see also:
salt slaw salad burnet poterium sanguisorba 

burnet \bur"net\, n. oe. burnet burnet; also, brownish the
   plant perh. being named from its color, fr. f. brunet, dim.
   of brun brown; cf. of. brunete a sort of flower. see
   brunette. bot.
   a genus of perennial herbs poterium; especially,
   poterium sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet.
   1913 webster

   burnet moth zool., in england, a handsome moth
      zygaena filipendula, with crimson spots on the
      wings.

   burnet saxifrage. bot. see saxifrage.

   canadian burnet, a marsh plant poterium canadensis.

   great burnet, wild burnet, poterium oficinalis or
      sanguisorba oficinalis.
      1913 webster
see also:
brunette poterium poterium sanguisorba burnet moth zygaena filipendula burnet saxifrage 
saxifrage canadian burnet poterium canadensis great burnet wild burnet 
poterium oficinalis sanguisorba oficinalis 

poterium sanguisorba
     n : european garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves
         that are sometimes used for salads syn: salad burnet,
         burnet bloodwort, pimpernel
see also:
salad burnet burnet bloodwort pimpernel