leafy vegetable

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leafy vegetable - any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables

veg, vegetable, 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)

beet green - young leaves of the beetroot

chard, leaf beet, spinach beet, Swiss chard - long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves

salad green, salad greens - greens suitable for eating uncooked as in salads

dandelion green - edible leaves of the common dandelion collected from the wild; used in salads and in making wine

lamb's-quarter, pigweed, wild spinach - leaves collected from the wild

wild spinach - leafy greens collected from the wild and used as a substitute for spinach

turnip greens - tender leaves of young white turnips

common sorrel, sorrel - large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces

French sorrel - greens having small tart oval to pointed leaves; preferred to common sorrel for salads

spinach - dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads

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Although the green leafy vegetable cannot be guaranteed to give you the strength of ten men, as was the case with Popeye, it is exceptionally nutritious, stuffed with minerals and antioxidants including significant levels of iron and calcium.