green vegetable

noun

1. a vegetable having green edible parts, as lettuce or broccoli.

Word History and Origins

Origin of green vegetable¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

The review also looked at vitamin A, commonly found in leafy green vegetables and yellow and orange fruit.

From Eater

The highest-scoring foods were leafy green vegetables, organ meats, oysters, clams, and mussels.

From Outside Online

Feel free to vary the vegetables based on what you have on hand, swapping onion for the leeks, parsnips or carrots for the potato, or using snow peas, baby kale, and basil for the green vegetables and herbs, for example.

From Washington Post

Collard greens are the traditional green vegetable of the South.

From The Daily Beast

Fry in clarified dripping, and pour over the dish any white or green vegetable ragot, made hot; grate Parmesan over all.

From Project Gutenberg

When it is done I strain it well and add a little green vegetable coloring, and it makes a lovely jelly.

From Project Gutenberg

Some of this goods is sold for the regular green vegetable, while some may be properly marked “Soaked Goods.”

From Project Gutenberg

Green-vegetable salads are the most valuable sources of mineral salts, and fruit salads come next.

From Project Gutenberg

Glit; slimy mud; the green vegetable (ducksmeat) that grows on the surface of stagnant water.

From Project Gutenberg