GREENS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does greens mean? 

• GREENS (noun)
  The noun GREENS has 1 sense:

1. any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables

  Familiarity information: GREENS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREENS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

green; greens; leafy vegetable

Hypernyms ("greens" is a kind of...):

veg; vegetable; veggie (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "greens"):

chop-suey greens (succulent and aromatic young dark green leaves used in Chinese and Vietnamese and Japanese cooking)

sprout (a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed))

beet green (young leaves of the beetroot)

chard; leaf beet; spinach beet; Swiss chard (long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves)

salad green; salad greens (greens suitable for eating uncooked as in salads)

dandelion green (edible leaves of the common dandelion collected from the wild; used in salads and in making wine)

lamb's-quarter; pigweed; wild spinach (leaves collected from the wild)

wild spinach (leafy greens collected from the wild and used as a substitute for spinach)

turnip greens (tender leaves of young white turnips)

common sorrel; sorrel (large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces)

French sorrel (greens having small tart oval to pointed leaves; preferred to common sorrel for salads)

spinach (dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads)

 Context examples 

Photographs of faces under LPS lighting were also matched to greens, but to a lesser extent.

(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)

Smoking, for example, increases the risk of developing the disease, while eating leafy greens and fish reduces it.

(New study about genes linked to age-related macular degeneration, National Institutes of Health)

But will it help us eat our greens?

(Is a milder mustard on the way?, National Science Foundation)

At the same time, remote sensing scientists have a space-based way to track when vegetation greens up and how productive it is compared to drought or wet years. the health of vegetation.

(Tracking Deer by NASA Satellite, NASA)

The greens and blues of antibacterial clays come from having a high content of chemically reduced iron, as opposed to oxidized iron, which provides the familiar rust color associated with many clays.

(Scientists discover how blue and green clays kill bacteria, NSF)

Iridophores have layers of reflecting plates that create iridescent greens, blues, silvers and golds, while leucophores are cells which can detect what colors best match the animal's surrounding.

(Octopuses can dream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Ascorbic acid is found in all fruits and vegetables, especially citrus fruits, strawberries, cantaloupe, green peppers, tomatoes, broccoli, leafy greens, and potatoes.

(Ascorbic acid, NCI Dictionary)

Foods like milk, milk products like cheese and yogurt, fatty fish like mackerel and sardines, some greens like kale and collards and fortified cereals also are good sources.

(High Doses of Vitamin D Rapidly Reduce Arterial Stiffness, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A member of the family of vegetables that includes broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, collard greens, kale, and turnips.

(Brassica vegetable, NCI Dictionary)

But the huntsman had heard all they said; and as soon as they were gone, he climbed to the top of the mountain, and when he had sat there a short time a cloud came rolling around him, and caught him in a whirlwind and bore him along for some time, till it settled in a garden, and he fell quite gently to the ground amongst the greens and cabbages.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)