green
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- noun
- /ɡriːn/
- US
:
verdura de hoja
- She loves to add sautéed greens like spinach and kale to her pasta dishes.
- leafy greens
- dark greens
- salad greens
Examples
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Go fix me some collard greens.
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And this is just green vegetable juice, right?
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And I think it's very important that you try to at least eat your greens.
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- I used to have a cousin that drove a truck up there delivering collard greens to a school district.
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Y'all got to get some collard greens and some yams!
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For dinner, I prepared a salad with fresh greens from the garden.
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The chef recommends using a mix of seasonal greens for the best flavor in your meal.
Synonyms
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A plant or plant part eaten as food, usually not sweet
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A green leafy vegetable eaten raw or cooked
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A leafy green vegetable often eaten raw in salads
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A round vegetable with thick leaves eaten raw or cooked
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A plant food like a carrot or lettuce that you eat
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A hardy green vegetable with curly leaves like cabbage
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A young onion with a long green stalk and mild taste eaten raw in salads
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Leaves and stems of plants like spinach or kale eaten as vegetables
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A leafy green vegetable with large dark leaves often cooked and eaten as a side
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A leafy vegetable with large green leaves and thick stems eaten cooked or raw
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A cold dish of raw green leaves people often eat with oil and vinegar
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A leafy green vegetable with large leaves and thick colorful stalks
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A long, crisp vegetable with dark green leaves used in salads
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A plant food with green edible leaves like spinach or lettuce
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A plant with green leaves and stems you eat
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Leaves from a mustard plant that people eat cooked
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The leaves of young turnip plants that you cook and eat
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Young leaves of the beet plant that you can cook or eat in salads
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Leafy vegetables like lettuce or spinach that you eat raw in salads
A hardy leafy vegetable like kale with thick curly leaves that do not form a head
A garden plant with dark green leaves that people eat
A leafy vegetable grown for its leaves and stalks instead of its root
An informal word for money or for green salad leaves
Antonyms
Idioms
- Jargon
To look at the slope and surface of a golf green to decide how to hit a putt
Compounds
- US
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An official card that allows a foreign person to live and work permanently in the United States
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A political party that wants to protect the environment and support fair social policies
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A period in the 1960s and 1970s when new seeds and fertilizers greatly increased food crops
- Specialized
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A way to release software using two identical systems to move users to the new version
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A range of mountains in Vermont, USA that are part of the Appalachian Mountains
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A river in the western United States that starts in Wyoming and flows south into the Colorado River
- Specialized
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Tiny living things in water that make food from light and often look blue-green
- Literature
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A soldier in green with no badge sent so a country can deny sending them
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A West African monkey that lives in open grasslands with a greenish-grey back and a yellow tail
- Archaic
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A soup made from the meat of green turtles, often served as a special food
A low, soft green plant with creeping stems often used to make Christmas wreaths
- South African
A monkey that lives on the African savanna with greenish-grey fur and a yellow tail
A small green or yellow-green toad with black bars and stripes found in North America
How Bitter
Surface Forms
Etymology
Green for vegetables comes from the same old English grēne for 'grass' and 'fresh', because these foods are the green leaves and stems we eat. That's why spinach and kale are called greens.