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salad greens

DEFINITIONS OF: salad greens

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n greens suitable for eating uncooked as in salads

Synonyms:
salad green
Types:
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lettuce
leaves of any of various plants of Lactuca sativa
celtuce
leaves having celery-like stems eaten raw or cooked
chicory, curly endive
crisp spiky leaves with somewhat bitter taste
chicory escarole, endive, escarole
variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges
cress
pungent leaves of any of numerous cruciferous herbs
salad burnet
leaves sometimes used for salad
butterhead lettuce
lettuce with relatively soft leaves in a loose head; easily broken or bruised
crisphead lettuce, iceberg, iceberg lettuce
lettuce with crisp tightly packed light-green leaves in a firm head
cos, cos lettuce, romaine, romaine lettuce
lettuce with long dark-green leaves in a loosely packed elongated head
leaf lettuce, loose-leaf lettuce
lettuce with loosely curled leaves that do not form a compact head
radicchio
prized variety of chicory having globose heads of red leaves
Belgian endive, French endive, witloof
young broad-leaved endive plant deprived of light to form a narrow whitish head
watercress
cresses that grow in clear ponds and streams
garden cress
cress cultivated for salads and garnishes
winter cress
cress cultivated for winter salads
Type of:
green, greens, leafy vegetable
any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables
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