Home › Words › F › fetticusfetticusfetticus means corn salad or mâche, Valerianella locusta, a plant whose leaves are used in salads.EtymologyFrom Dutch vette kost (“fat food”).nouncorn salad or mâche, Valerianella locusta, a plant whose leaves are used in salads.e.g.“Earliest sown or planted — round beet, peas, forcing carrot, lettuce, radish, early cabbage, peppergrass, mustard, spinach, kohlrabi, turnip, scallion, early potato, fetticus.” — 1945, Maurice Grenville Kains, Five acres and independence: a practical guide to the selection and management of the small farm:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.mâche 75% match — Valerianella locusta, a small dicot annual plant of the family Caprifoliaceae often cultivated as a salad green or herb. vs fetticus →doucette 68% match — corn salad, lamb's lettuce vs fetticus →mesclun 62% match — A mixture of small, young leaves as a salad vs fetticus →acetarious 60% match — Used in salads or as salad vs fetticus →rucola 60% match — Rocket, arugula (plant Eruca sativa). vs fetticus →salading 59% match — Vegetables or herbs to be used in a salad. vs fetticus →buttercrunch 59% match — A mild lettuce, Lactuca sativa. vs fetticus →endive 58% match — A leafy salad vegetable, Cichorium endivia, which is often confused with common chicory (Cichorium intybus). vs fetticus →