Meaning of leavy greens | Babel Free

Definitions

Rare form of leafy greens.

form-of, plural, plural-only, rare

Examples

““We used to serve 1,400 pounds of spinach a week and the men threw out half of it.” said Lieut. E. J. Anspach, Jr. “Now we have cut out not only spinach but practically all leavy greens.””

“Equipment used for this purpose includes revolving or vibrating coarse screens to remove sand from spinach and other leavy greens and dirt clods from root vegetables, roller conveyors to separate leaves from tree fruits, and air cleaners to remove loose husks and leaves from corn and vines from green beans and peas.”

“Vegetables are supremely important in Chinese and Japanese cuisine. Those ancient cultures have developed many subtly varying strains of food plants; leavy greens that cook quickly, spicy roots, pungent herbs, multipurpose cabbages.”

“The house salad is primarily dark leavy greens garnished with yellow cherry tomatoes, cucumber slices and forgettable chopped black California olives; […]”

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