green
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- noun
- /ɡriːn/
- US
- 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 leafy green vegetable often eaten raw in salads
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A plant food like a carrot or lettuce that you eat
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A round vegetable with thick leaves eaten raw or cooked
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A green leafy vegetable eaten raw or cooked
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Leaves and stems of plants like spinach or kale eaten as vegetables
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A hardy green vegetable with curly leaves like cabbage
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A leafy green vegetable with large dark leaves often cooked and eaten as a side
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A young onion with a long green stalk and mild taste eaten raw in salads
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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 plant with green leaves and stems you eat
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A long, crisp vegetable with dark green leaves used in salads
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Leafy vegetables like lettuce or spinach that you eat raw in salads
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Leaves from a mustard plant that people eat cooked
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A plant food with green edible leaves like spinach or lettuce
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Young leaves of the beet plant that you can cook or eat in salads
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The leaves of young turnip plants that you cook and eat
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A garden plant with dark green leaves that people eat
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An informal word for money or for green salad leaves
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A hardy leafy vegetable like kale with thick curly leaves that do not form a head
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A leafy vegetable grown for its leaves and stalks instead of its root
Antonyms
Idioms
- Jargon
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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
- NSFW
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A fictional food said to be made from people and used to warn about suspicious food
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A range of mountains in Vermont, USA that are part of the Appalachian Mountains
- Specialized
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Tiny living things in water that make food from light and often look blue-green
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A river in the western United States that starts in Wyoming and flows south into the Colorado River
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A low, soft green plant with creeping stems often used to make Christmas wreaths
- 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
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.