greens vs vegetable

greens

noun
  • Leafy plants that are used for decoration. 

  • Leaves and leaf-like parts of edible plants when eaten as vegetables or in salads. 

  • The green dress uniform of the United States Marine Corps. 

  • Green vegetables; edible plants or plant parts that contain chlorophyll. 

vegetable

noun
  • Any plant. 

  • A person whose brain (or, infrequently, body) has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a person in a persistent vegetative state. 

  • A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice in the culinary sense. 

  • The edible part of such a plant. 

adj
  • Of or relating to plants. 

  • Of or relating to vegetables. 

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