1. Any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables
   "She prepared a side dish of sautéed mixed greens";
   - green, leafy vegetable

1. Green colour or pigment; resembling the colour of growing grass
   "The green of the spring leaves was a welcome sight after winter";
   - greenness, viridity
    
2. An area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course
   "the ball rolled across the green and into the bunker";
   - putting green, putting surface
    
3. A piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area
   "Children played soccer on the village green";
   - park, commons, common

1. Turn or become green
   "The trees are greening"

Type of: chromatic color [US], chromatic colour [Brit, Cdn], color [US], colour [Brit, Cdn], discolor [US], discolour [Brit, Cdn], land site, parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, site, spectral color [US], spectral colour [Brit, Cdn], tract, veg [Brit, informal], vegetable, veggie [informal]

Part of: golf course, links course, populated area, urban area

Encyclopedia: Greens, New Hampshire