English > greens: 1 sense > noun 1, food| Meaning | Any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables. |
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| Synonyms | green, leafy vegetable |
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| Narrower | French sorrel | greens / greens having small tart oval to pointed leaves |
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| beet green | young / young leaves of the beetroot |
| chard, Swiss chard, spinach beet, leaf beet | long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves |
| chop-suey greens | succulent and aromatic young dark green leaves used in Chinese and Vietnamese and Japanese cooking |
| dandelion green | edible leaves of the common dandelion collected from the wild |
| lamb's-quarter, pigweed, wild spinach | leaves collected from the wild |
| salad green, salad greens | greens suitable for eating uncooked as in salads |
| sorrel, common sorrel | large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces |
| spinach | dark green leaves |
| sprout | A newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed) |
| turnip greens | tender leaves of young / young white turnips |
| wild spinach | leafy greens / greens collected from the wild and used as a substitute for spinach |
| Broader | vegetable, veggie, veg | edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant |
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| Spanish | hortaliza, verdura, verduras |
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| Catalan | hortalissa, verdura |
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