greens - any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetablesvegetable, veggie - edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant 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) dandelion green - edible leaves of the common dandelion collected from the wild; used in salads and in making wine wild spinach - leafy greens collected from the wild and used as a substitute for spinach French sorrel - small tart oval to spearpoint-shaped leaves; preferred to common sorrel for salads spinach - dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads |