Talk:greens
Latest comment: 7 years ago by Kiwima in topic RFV discussion: September–October 2017
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editApparently "greens" can be slang for sex. It's in Chambers. I've never heard it myself. Equinox ◑ 02:16, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
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"Any vegetables eaten by humans, regardless of colour." Carrots, beetroot, potatoes?! Equinox ◑ 15:37, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
- Also, which sense of vegetables? DCDuring (talk) 20:09, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
- I think the first sense is over-specific and the second is a misguided attempt to correct it. They should both be merged into "leaves and leaf-like parts of plants when eaten as vegetables. That way you exclude peppers and sweet corn without excluding anything that's the wrong color. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any plants with cladophylls, for instance, that are eaten as greens, but there's nothing in principle saying there couldn't be. Chuck Entz (talk) 02:48, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
- Red is a frequently occurring color in some salad greens. Also see
Leaf vegetables on Wikipedia.Wikipedia DCDuring (talk) 04:11, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
- Red is a frequently occurring color in some salad greens. Also see
- I think the first sense is over-specific and the second is a misguided attempt to correct it. They should both be merged into "leaves and leaf-like parts of plants when eaten as vegetables. That way you exclude peppers and sweet corn without excluding anything that's the wrong color. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any plants with cladophylls, for instance, that are eaten as greens, but there's nothing in principle saying there couldn't be. Chuck Entz (talk) 02:48, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
I have tweaked the definitions slightly and cited this. Kiwima (talk) 02:28, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
RFV-resolved Kiwima (talk) 04:21, 26 October 2017 (UTC)