greens
Leaves and leaf-like parts of edible plants when eaten as vegetables or in salads.
Other meanings
green vegetables; edible plants or plant parts that contain chlorophyll.
“starches, meats, and greens”
leafy plants that are used for decoration.
Synonyms
- leafy vegetable
A kind of
- vegetable
Kinds of greens
- sprout
- beet green
- spinach beet
- salad green
- dandelion green
- wild spinach
- spinach
Example sentences
Word history
From Middle English "grenes".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “greens” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.