SALAD GREENS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does salad greens mean? 

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

1. greens suitable for eating uncooked as in salads

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SALAD GREENS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Greens suitable for eating uncooked as in salads

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

salad green; salad greens

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

green; greens; leafy vegetable (any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables)

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

lettuce (leaves of any of various plants of Lactuca sativa)

celtuce (leaves having celery-like stems eaten raw or cooked)

chicory; curly endive (crisp spiky leaves with somewhat bitter taste)

chicory escarole; endive; escarole (variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges)

cress (pungent leaves of any of numerous cruciferous herbs)

salad burnet (leaves sometimes used for salad)