green salad
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- noun
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ensalada verde
- To round out the nutrition on this cheesy dinner, I recommend a simple green salad dressed with lime juice.
- a mixed green salad
- a fresh green salad
- a crisp green salad
Examples
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Serve with warm rolls and a green salad.
Blog text (27) -
No, I hope you understand if I just push that plate away and ask for a green salad instead.
Blog text (23) -
-How about if I get you a green salad?
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-Do you have a green salad?
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I'll have a green salad, no dressing.
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I'll have a green salad and a Perrier.
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First, she served us a green salad with goat's cheese, garlic, and tomatoes.
Fiction book (1995) -
I want a rib eye steak with mashed potatoes and a large green salad.
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And a green salad with red leaf lettuce and endive, cucumber, pepper, alfalfa sprouts, and a vinegar-and-oil dressing flavored with dill.
Fiction book (1997) -
I'll have a green salad, no dressing.
Synonyms
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A cold dish of small pieces of vegetables often served with a dressing
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A salad made by mixing vegetables with a dressing
How Filling
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a salad made mainly from green leafy vegetables' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'green' (leafy/green) with 'salad' (a mixed raw-vegetable dish). This adjective+noun composition follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern and would be immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
The name green salad comes from the simple, literal picture of a green mix of leaves and a salad. Because it is mostly green leaves served 'raw' with dressing, 'green salad' now means a cold dish of leafy vegetables.