salad
Word family nounsaladingsalad creamsalad dayssalad dressingsalad
Food, dish
sal·ad /ˈsæləd/ ●●● S2 noun [countableC, uncountableU] 1 
DFFa mixture of raw vegetables, especially lettuce, cucumber, and tomato 色拉
DFFa mixture of raw vegetables, especially lettuce, cucumber, and tomato 色拉 Would you like some salad with your pasta?
你的意大利面要配些色拉吗？
a spinach salad
菠菜色拉
toss a salad (=mix it all together, usually with a dressing) 拌色拉
2 DFFraw or cooked food cut into small pieces and served cold 凉拌菜
fruit/potato salad 水果/马铃薯色拉
Examples from the Corpus
salad• a salad bowl• A salad of sun-dried tomatoes to start, she thought, and then perhaps the salmon?• Sometimes she managed a rare steak or else ate salad and ice-cream.• Serve hot, accompanied by a tomato and cucumber salad.• Serve with a jacket potato and a green salad.• A bowl of salad and another of rice.• That carries her to lunch, which is the heaviest meal of the day: grilled chicken or seafood pasta plus salad.• potato salad• Season salad to taste with salt and pepper, add remaining 1 teaspoon fish sauce, if desired.• The fact that he was suddenly not perfect made her pause over the salad of prejudices she was starting to admit to.• Adjust seasoning, serve hot with salad and crusty bread.
fruit/potato salad• If you use too much colour you can end up with something that looks like a fruit salad.• There were bowls of coleslaw and potato salad laced with green peas, buttered garlic rolls and hard-boiled eggs.• Cube for fruit salad with other exotic fruit.• Note: Leftovers make a great potato salad.• She finally decided on the ham, potato salad and deviled eggs.• She made potato salad and deviled eggs and tea and I brought green beans and a pound cake.• We then had a bowl of fruit salad, and there was change from the price of a glass of beer.• It is mixed with potato salad and is a heavy, almost inedible concoction.
(1300-1400) Old French salade, from Old Provençal salada, from salar “to add salt to”, from sal “salt”