The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word ROMAINE
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More clues leading to the result ROMAINE
- Chief's tucked into eggs and lettuce
- A home in the capital offers a sort of lettuce
- Deer eat head of lettuce in the US
- Lettuce and eggs chief’s brought in
- Cardinal carried by ruminant leaves
- Lettuce and fish eggs — most important for inclusion
- Great tucking into eggs and lettuce in America
- Mother at home tucking into eggs and lettuce
- When I am ordering sandwiches rejecting salad
- Cardinal getting into caviar and lettuce
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What does ROMAINE mean?
ROMAINE noun- Lactuca sativa var. longifolia, a type of lettuce having long crisp leaves forming a slender head.