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 

• LEAFY VEGETABLE (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 ("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)