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lettuce bed noun A dense, sometimes impenetrable growth of rhododendron (called laurel in the mountains).

1917 Kephart Camping & Woodcraft 2:24 Those great tracts of rhododendron ... cover mile after mile of steep mountainside where few men have ever been. The natives call such wastes “laurel slicks,” “woolly heads,” “lettuce beds,” “yaller patches,” and “hells.” 1939 Hall Coll (Nine Mile TN) We hit in after [the bear], and it wandered around through them roughs, what we called the lettuce beds. Dark catched us in there, [and] we let the bear get away.