greens
nounnounverbattested in dialogue
- //ɡɹiːnz//
Leaves and leaf-like parts of edible plants when eaten as vegetables or in salads.
noun
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Leaves and leaf-like parts of edible plants when eaten as vegetables or in salads.
salad greens
collard greens
If you're a beginning gardener and have never grown a vegetable in your life before, try greens. You'll find no easier group of vegetables to grow than greens.
Collard Greens are my favorite greens!
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Green vegetables; edible plants or plant parts that contain chlorophyll.
starches, meats, and greens
Seaweed is delicious, and now that you've fallen in love with these ocean greens, you likely can't wait to polish off multiple bowlfuls each day.
91% of Americans don't eat the recommended daily intake of green vegetables. This is a combination of the challenge of time, budget and the perception most of us picked up as kids that greens don't taste good.
We know we should eat more greens, but we so easily get stuck in a rut and just steam some broccoli or green beans, time and time again
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Leafy plants that are used for decoration.
Yuletide greens
Tip greens - the new growth at the ends of branches - are often harvested either for the wholesale or retail market, or for one's own processing.
In phase II, we carried out the field portion of the study during two consecutive weeks in April 2002, a time that coincided with the end of the spring floral greens havesting season for that year.
"We're going for Christmas greens and Dad's going to cut our tree from away up on the hillside," Toad told him, "and," he added, "we're going to take one of the horses with us to drag it home.
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The green dress uniform of the United States Marine Corps.
Some years ago, moths ruined my greens, and my son, a career Army man, sensed my loss.
Etymology
From Middle English grenes, equivalent to green + -s. Compare Saterland Frisian Gräinieten (“vegetable”), West Frisian grienten (“vegetables, greens”), Dutch groenten (“vegetables, greens”), German Low German Gröönten (“vegetables, greens”), Danish grøntsager (“vegetables”), Swedish grönsaker (“vegetables”).
noun
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Also a form of greenplural of green
verb
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Also a form of greenthird-person singular simple present indicative of green
Etymology
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
greens · Leaves and leaf-like parts of edible plants when eaten as vegetables or in salads.
Greens · The Australian Greens, a left-wing, progressive green party…Greenwich · A place in England: A town on the south bank of the River…Greer · A patronymic Scottish surname from Scots Gregor (“Gregory”).