Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun greens

1 sense of greens

Sense 1
greens, green, leafy vegetable -- (any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables)
       => vegetable, veggie, veg -- (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun green

8 senses of green

Sense 1
green, greenness, viridity -- (green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass)
       => chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour -- (a color that has hue)

Sense 2
park, commons, common, green -- (a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area; "they went for a walk in the park")
       => tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel -- (an extended area of land)

Sense 3
Green, William Green -- (United States labor leader who was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952 and who led the struggle with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (1873-1952))
       INSTANCE OF=> labor leader -- (a leader of a labor movement)

Sense 4
Green -- (an environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party)
       => environmentalist, conservationist -- (someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution)

Sense 5
Green, Green River -- (a river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River)
       INSTANCE OF=> river -- (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek); "the river was navigable for 50 miles")

Sense 6
green, putting green, putting surface -- (an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course; "the ball rolled across the green and into the bunker")
       => site, land site -- (the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located); "a good site for the school")

Sense 7
greens, green, leafy vegetable -- (any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables)
       => vegetable, veggie, veg -- (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)

Sense 8
K, jet, super acid, special K, honey oil, green, cat valium, super C -- (street names for ketamine)
       => ketamine, ketamine hydrochloride, Ketalar -- (a general anesthetic and tranquilizer (not a barbiturate) that is administered intravenously or intramuscularly; used mainly by veterinarians or for minor surgery with geriatric or pediatric patients; taken in large doses it causes hallucinations similar to those associated with the use of PCP)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb green

1 sense of green

Sense 1
green -- (turn or become green; "The trees are greening")
       => discolor, discolour, colour, color -- (change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored")

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