green vegetable

noun

|Updated on: 12 Jun 2018

Definition of green vegetable

: a vegetable whose foliage or foliage-bearing stalks are the chief edible part

Recent Examples of green vegetable from the Web

These kinds of foods can make your poop change color because of their chlorophyll, a plant pigment that gives green vegetables their hue, Dr. Shen says.

— korin miller, SELF, "Here Are All the Things That Can Cause Bizarre Green Poop," 30 May 2018
The farm, which began production late last year, is on an 800-square-meter plot of land in one of Dubai's main industrial areas, and produces two hundred boxes of green vegetables a day.

— rabiya jaffery, The Christian Science Monitor, "UAE tries vertical farming to produce food with little water," 10 May 2018
Industry members established a voluntary marketing agreement, under which participating handlers of leafy green vegetables agree to buy produce only from farms that follow specific safety procedures.

— jesse newman, WSJ, "Regulators Hunt for Source of Lettuce-Borne E.Coli Outbreak," 27 Apr. 2018
The tradition began in 1962, when a pipe fitters union—with permission from the mayor—poured 100 pounds of green vegetable dye into the river.

— brynn mannino, Woman's Day, "St. Patrick's Day Around the World," 17 Mar. 2015
For example, dark-green vegetables provide the most vitamin K, red and orange vegetables the most vitamin A, legumes [beans and peas] the most dietary fiber, and starchy vegetables the most potassium.

— NBC News, "How I learned to love (or at least tolerate) vegetables," 26 Mar. 2018
Beating myself up — even if only for a moment — for being a quarter-cup shy of my weekly vegetable goal and eating more green vegetables than I was supposed to is a recipe for disaster.

— daniel j. green /, NBC News, "How to define what 'perfection' looks like in your own weight-loss journey," 20 Feb. 2018
Try dipping the green vegetable into chocolate and passing it as a dessert.

— kelly tyko, USA TODAY, "Be careful before biting into Easter eggs Sunday! It's also April Fools' Day," 28 Mar. 2018
Try dipping the green vegetable into chocolate and passing it as a dessert.

— atlanta life, ajc, "Be careful before biting into Easter eggs Sunday! It’s also April Fools’ Day," 28 Mar. 2018

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