🥦 Fresh produce 🌱 Sustainable food

green groceries

1.3

Fresh fruits and vegetables sold in shops or markets

noun

: verduras

Many people prefer to buy their green groceries from local farmers' markets.

Examples

The outdoor market was overflowing with colorful green groceries early in the morning.
I bought some green groceries at the farmer's market.
He stopped at the corner shop to pick up some green groceries for dinner.
Where can I find green groceries in this neighborhood?
He stopped at the corner shop to pick up some green groceries for dinner.
Many people prefer to buy their green groceries from local farmers' markets.
The outdoor market was overflowing with colorful green groceries early in the morning.

Synonyms

produce

vsgreen groceries

137 1.1

Fresh fruits and vegetables often sold at markets

refers specifically to items sold by a market seller

fresh produce

vsgreen groceries

9 1.0

Fruits and vegetables that are picked recently and not processed

refers to items grown for sale rather than their processing state

greengrocery

vsgreen groceries

4.1

Fresh fruit and vegetables sold in a market or shop

focuses on fruits and vegetables grown for sale

green goods

vsgreen groceries

2.0

Fresh fruits and vegetables that farmers grow to sell in markets

uses the same sense but with a different phrase

garden truck

vsgreen groceries

4.6

Fresh fruits and vegetables that farmers grow to sell at markets

expresses same market selling idea without the compound term

Surface Forms

green groceries singular

green groceries plural

Morphology

green + grocery

The meaning 'groceries produced in environmentally friendly ways' is directly and transparently built from 'green' (relating to ecology/sustainability) plus 'grocery' (foodstuffs/household items). This adjective–noun composition follows a standard, cross-linguistically common pattern (e.g. 'green products'), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

Green groceries comes from the picture of market stalls full of fresh plant food where greengrocers piled up green vegetables and fruit. That's why it means 'fresh fruits and vegetables'.