salad green

noun

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

Example Sentences

The entree is textbook perfect, down to a hedge of mustard-sharpened salad greens.

From Washington Post

These machines had offered jars of salad greens, Thai noodles, falafel bowls, and yogurt parfaits.

From Popular-Science

One “serving” is a half-cup of any vegetables or fruits, or a whole cup of salad greens.

From Washington Post

There the grass is of the liveliest tint—a kind of salad-green.

From Project Gutenberg

Arrange vegetables on any crisp salad green, and pour dressing over them.

From Project Gutenberg

The Salad Greens—any salad green may be used—should be dressed in a simple manner.

From Project Gutenberg

Mrs. Burson was fitting a salad-green bodice on her elder daughter.

From Project Gutenberg

With a splash, Rudolph stood beside him among the tufts of salad green.

From Project Gutenberg