green — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. immature; inexperienced; new, recent; pale, wan. See color, newness, youth, credulity. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Of the color green] Syn. greenish, virid, virescent. Hues of green include: emerald … English dictionary for students
spinach beet — n. 1. a beet lacking a swollen root; it is grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks. Syn: chard, Swiss chard, spinach beet, leaf beet, chard plant, Beta vulgaris cicla. [WordNet 1.5] 2. a plant with long succulent whitish stalks with … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Green — (gr[=e]n), n. 1. The color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue. [1913 Webster] 2. A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green. [1913… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
green — [grēn] adj. [ME grene < OE, akin to Ger grün, Du groen: for IE base see GROW] 1. of the color that is characteristic of growing grass 2. a) overspread with or characterized by green plants or foliage [a green field] b) made of green leaved… … English World dictionary
Green sauce — is the name of several different sauces containing mainly herbs, namely the Italian salsa verde , the French sauce verte , and the German Grüne Soße or Frankfurter Grie Soß (Frankfurt dialect). History The basic recipe is probably from the Near… … Wikipedia
green — [adj1] young, new, blooming bosky, budding, burgeoning, callow, developing, flourishing, foliate, fresh, grassy, growing, half formed, immature, infant, juvenile, leafy, lush, maturing, pliable, puerile, pullulating, raw, recent, sprouting,… … New thesaurus
spinach — ► NOUN ▪ a plant with large dark green leaves which are eaten as a vegetable. ORIGIN probably from Old French espinache, from Persian … English terms dictionary
spinach — [spin′ich] n. [< MFr espinach < (? via ML spinachia) OSp espinaca < Ar isbānakh < Pers aspanākh] 1. a plant (Spinacia oleracea) of the goosefoot family, with large, dark green, juicy, edible leaves, usually eaten cooked 2. the leaves… … English World dictionary
Spinach — Taxobox name = Spinach image width = 270px image caption = Spinach in flower regnum = Plantae divisio = Magnoliophyta classis = Magnoliopsida ordo = Caryophyllales familia = Amaranthaceae, formerly Chenopodiaceae [http://ecoport.org/ep?Plant=1997 … Wikipedia
green — greenage, n. greenly, adv. /green/, adj., greener, greenest, n., v. adj. 1. of the color of growing foliage, between yellow and blue in the spectrum: green leaves. 2. covered with herbage or foliage; verdant: green fields. 3. characterized by the … Universalium