greens
IPA: grˈinz
noun
- Leaves and leaf-like parts of edible plants when eaten as vegetables or in salads.
- Green vegetables; edible plants or plant parts that contain chlorophyll.
- Leafy plants that are used for decoration.
- (military) The green dress uniform of the United States Marine Corps.
- (Australian politics) The Australian Greens, a left-wing, progressive green party in Australia
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Examples of "greens" in Sentences
- My next special op will be finishing canning these greens from the garden today.
- The yogurt with the greens is an interesting touch, and the lemon cumin dressing is right up my alley.
- Their fig salad with candied almonds and bitter greens is outstanding if they featrure it while you are there.
- We get more of our greens from the Urban Foodshed Collaborative, an organization that teaches kids to grow vegetables on vacant lots around the city.
- In the spring of the year the farmers were very fond of a dish which they called greens, though the fashionable name for it now-a-days is spinach, I believe.
- The company, which finds more customers among retired military than it does among granola crunching "greens," is growing like topsy and each system installed reduces a household's carbon emissions by fifty percent.
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