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SALAD GREENS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Greens suitable for eating uncooked as in salads
Synonyms:
salad green; salad greens
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
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)
