leafy vegetable
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Any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables (synset 107725078)
is a type of: veg, vegetable, veggie - edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plantsubtypes:
- chop-suey greens - succulent and aromatic young dark green leaves used in Chinese and Vietnamese and Japanese cooking
- sprout - a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed)
- beet green - young leaves of the beetroot
- chard, leaf beet, spinach beet, swiss chard - long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves
- salad green, salad greens - greens suitable for eating uncooked as in salads
- dandelion green - edible leaves of the common dandelion collected from the wild; used in salads and in making wine
- lamb's-quarter, pigweed, wild spinach - leaves collected from the wild
- wild spinach - leafy greens collected from the wild and used as a substitute for spinach
- turnip greens - tender leaves of young white turnips
- common sorrel, sorrel - large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces
- french sorrel - greens having small tart oval to pointed leaves; preferred to common sorrel for salads
- spinach - dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads
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