salad green

noun

1. a leafy green vegetable, as lettuce, watercress, or escarole, served raw as or in a salad.

Example Sentences

Before trying it I did not know you could cook salad greens.

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"We've worked with everything from soft fruit to salad greens, clearing beds and keeping crops out of the compost heap," said Holtam.

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The selected food items included tomatoes, onions, eggs, salad greens, carrots, apples, strawberries, cabbage, potatoes and broccoli.

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If you're a salad purist, though, this list may not be for you — there's a lot more going on here than just dressed salad greens, that's for sure.

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Baby borage is smoother and easy to eat as a raw salad green.

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