Nice

The salad is the adjective for Nice.

Nicoise means of Nice, on the French Riviera. Arguments about what belongs in it are a local sport.

A French city gave its name to the standard account of how the solar system settled down.

The model was worked out at the Côte d'Azur Observatory in Nice and published in a set of papers in 2005. It explains the Late Heavy Bombardment, the scattered Kuiper belt, and Jupiter's Trojan asteroids as consequences of the giant planets moving after the gas disk cleared. Astronomers pronounce it like the city, not like the English adjective.