| NOUN | food | salad greens, salad green | greens suitable for eating uncooked as in salads |
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| Meaning | greens suitable for eating uncooked as in salads. | |
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| Synonym | salad green | |
| Narrower | celtuce | leaves having celery-like stems eaten raw or cooked |
| chicory, curly endive | Crisp spiky leaves with somewhat bitter taste | |
| chicory escarole, endive, escarole | Variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges | |
| cress | pungent leaves of any of numerous cruciferous herbs | |
| lettuce | leaves of any of various plants of Lactuca sativa | |
| salad burnet | leaves sometimes used for salad | |
| Broader | greens, green, leafy vegetable | Any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables |
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