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Greens

noun

1.

Any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables. Synonyms: green, leafy vegetable.

Green

noun

1.

Green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass. Synonyms: greenness, viridity.

2.

A piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area. Synonyms: common, commons, park.

3.

United States labor leader who was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952 and who led the struggle with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (1873-1952). Synonym: William Green.

4.

An environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party.

5.

A river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River. Synonym: Green River.

6.

An area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course. Synonyms: putting green, putting surface.

7.

Any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables. Synonyms: greens, leafy vegetable.

8.

Street names for ketamine. Synonyms: cat valium, honey oil, jet, K, special K, super acid, super C.

verb

(past & past part. greened; pres. part. greening)

1.

Turn or become green.

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"Greens" Quotes from Famous Books

... or five hours in proportion to the size. Turn the meat twice in the pot while it is boiling. Put in some carrots and turnips about two hours after the meat. Many persons boil cabbage in the same pot with the beef, but it is a much nicer way to do the greens in a separate vessel, lest they become saturated with the liquid fat. Cauliflower or brocoli (which are frequent accompaniments to corned beef) should never be ...

— Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches • Eliza Leslie

... fond of dandelion greens, and missed them very much, as she could find none growing about our place. So she sent back to Maine for seed and planted them. But I hardly think that the great quantities we have now are the result of ...

— Old Rail Fence Corners - The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History • Various

... ladies who had gathered from all over Scotland to dance beneath the banner of the white rose. The Hall was a great blaze of moving colour, but above the tartans and the plaids, the mixed reds, greens, blues, and yellows, everywhere fluttered rampant the white streamers and cockades of ...

— A Daughter of Raasay - A Tale of the '45 • William MacLeod Raine

... the hour were such as make the plain lover content with his world. The earth, a mighty robe of closely woven velvet, mottled softly in variant greens, swept away to the west, under a soaring convexity of saffron sky, towards a cloudy altar whereon small wisps of vapor were burning down to golden embers, while beneath lay the dark-blue Rampart range. It was a world for horsemen, for free rovers, and for swift and tireless ...

— Money Magic - A Novel • Hamlin Garland

... to taes, Are busked in crunklin' underclaes; The gartened hose, the weel-filled stays, The nakit shift, A' bleached on bonny greens for days, ...

— Underwoods • Robert Louis Stevenson

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