different between greeds vs greens

English

Noun

greeds

1. plural of greed
   • 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

     She does not display voracities and greeds like a number of patients […] nor has she shown any significant tendency to possessiveness, grievance, paranoia, or mania.

Verb

greeds

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of greed

Anagrams

• edgers, serged

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: gr?nz, IPA^(key): /??i?nz/
• Rhymes: -i?nz

Etymology 1

From Middle English grenes, equivalent to green +? -s. Compare Saterland Frisian Gräinieten (“vegetable”), West Frisian grienten (“vegetables, greens”), Dutch groenten (“vegetables, greens”), German Low German Gröönten (“vegetables, greens”), Danish grøntsager (“vegetables”), Swedish grönsaker (“vegetables”).

Noun

greens pl (plural only)

1. Leaves and leaf-like parts of edible plants when eaten as vegetables or in salads.
2. Green vegetables; edible plants or plant parts that contain chlorophyll.
3. Leafy plants that are used for decoration.
4. The green uniform of the United States Marine Corps.
   • 1991, The Leatherneck (volume 74)

     Some years ago, moths ruined my greens, and my son, a career Army man, sensed my loss.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

greens

1. plural of green

Etymology 2

From green (verb).

Verb

greens

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of green

References

• greens on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Egners, Gerens, Senger, genres, negers, regens

Danish

Noun

greens c

1. indefinite plural of green

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

greens

1. plural of green