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LEAFY VEGETABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does leafy vegetable mean?
• LEAFY VEGETABLE (noun)
The noun LEAFY VEGETABLE has 1 sense:
1. any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables
Familiarity information: LEAFY VEGETABLE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("leafy vegetable" 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 "leafy vegetable"):
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
Spinach has always been known as a green leafy vegetable.
(World's First True Red Spinach Variety Released, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
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