- green vegetable
- noun Date: 1826 a vegetable whose foliage or foliage-bearing stalks are the chief edible part
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
green vegetable
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green vegetable — noun : a vegetable having the edible parts rich in chlorophyll and forming an important source of vitamins and micronutrients * * * a vegetable having green edible parts, as lettuce or broccoli. [1880 85] * * * ˌgreen ˈvegetable [green vegetable] … Useful english dictionary
green vegetable — /grin ˈvɛdʒtəbəl/ (say green vejtuhbuhl) noun a vegetable useful for its edible green leaf, seed pod, etc …
green vegetable — a vegetable having green edible parts, as lettuce or broccoli. [1880 85] * * * … Universalium
green vegetable bug — noun : a common and destructive cosmopolitan pentatomid bug (Nezara viridula) that is orange as a young nymph and bright green as an adult and that attacks many cultivated plants … Useful english dictionary
green bean — n a long thin green vegetable which is picked before the beans inside it grow British Equivalent: French bean … Dictionary of contemporary English
green pepper — n a hollow green vegetable that you can cook or eat raw in ↑salads … Dictionary of contemporary English
green bean — noun count a long thin green vegetable that grows on a tall climbing plant: STRING BEAN … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
green pepper — noun count a HOLLOW green vegetable containing small white seeds. It can be eaten raw in salads or cooked … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
green bean — noun 1. immature bean pod eaten as a vegetable (Freq. 1) • Hypernyms: ↑fresh bean • Hyponyms: ↑snap bean, ↑snap, ↑string bean, ↑Kentucky wonder, ↑Kentucky wond … Useful english dictionary
green bean — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms green bean : singular green bean plural green beans a long thin green vegetable that grows on a tall climbing plant … English dictionary
