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leafy greens

leafy greens noun: leaf vegetables.

Noun

leafy greens pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Leaf vegetables.
    • Another option is to wash spinach and other leafy greens thoroughly in running water before eating them.2021 July 1, Gregory McNamee, “Does spinach make you strong? Ask Popeye – and science”, in CNN, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2025

Forms of leafy greens

alternative form (rare)leavy greens

Words that rhyme with leafy greens

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Questions about leafy greens

What does leafy greens mean?
Leafy greens means leaf vegetables.
What part of speech is leafy greens?
Leafy greens is a noun.

Words near leafy greens in the dictionary

  1. leafworm
  2. leafworms
  3. leafy
  4. leafy goosefoot
  5. leafy goosefoots
  6. leafy greens
  7. leafy liverwort
  8. leafy liverworts
  9. leafy sea dragon
  10. leafy sea dragons
  11. leafy seadragon

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