(n.) A retailer of vegetables or fruits in their fresh or green state.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said: "This is a wonderful town but Tesco will suck the life out of the greengrocers, butchers, off-licence, and then it is only a matter of time for us too.
(2) I remember coming out of South Kensington station one evening and seeing these very strange new things on sale (at the greengrocers) called avocado pears.
(3) The queues at my local Turkish greengrocer are much longer just lately, and people's baskets piled much higher.
(4) There are two bakers, two butchers, two wet fish shops, three greengrocers, two general food stores, two florists, two bookshops, three newsagents, and an ironmonger's which sells an astonishing range of goods, including four sorts of mole trap.
(5) Bridget Gubbins Morpeth, Northumberland • Visiting a greengrocer’s shop, I asked for a melon ( Letters , 5 August).
(6) Preservation of old-fashioned English values, the flag of St George hanging from every public building and greengrocers with English accents selling cox's apples in imperial measures.
(7) Born in Leicester, the son, grandson and great-grandson of greengrocers, he left school with four O-levels and joined Leicester City's youth team in 1976.
(8) Two months later, in August 2001, greengrocer Habil Kılıç, 38, was shot twice in his shop in the Munich suburbs.
(9) In Bristol, the proliferation of local micro-breweries, vinyl revival record stores and pop-up greengrocers is mirrored in the rise of a new breed of grassroots congregation, attracting younger, trendier demographics with considerable success.
(10) Round the corner at 28 rue de l'Evêché, rubbing shoulders with a greengrocers and a charcuterie, we found the workshop and tiny boutique Cecile aux Etoiles, full of gorgeous clothes in deceptively simple designs made by Cecile, who is on hand for on-the-spot alterations.
(11) It was the second day of Shorten’s promised three-week tour of the supermarkets and greengrocers of key Australian electorates, which began with a visit to Woolworths in Queanbeyan on Tuesday and the now infamous inquiry: “What’s your favourite type of lettuce?” That awkward attempt at small talk has since spurred a national debate about salad greens but not, unfortunately for Shorten, a debate about whether the Turnbull government intends to increase the GST to 15%.
(12) This recreation of a Victorian town comes with pub, pharmacy, greengrocers, drapers, printers, candle-makers, workers' cottages, bakery and even a chip shop.
(13) The new fees mean our future leaders are unlikely to be the daughters of greengrocers like Margaret Thatcher, or sons of vicars like Gordon Brown.
(14) Photograph: Martin Pope for the Guardian Tracy Brown has run Crab Apple greengrocers for the past eight years.
(15) If shops like us close it will be catastrophic for the town.” Greengrocers Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tracy Brown, of Crab Apple greengrocers: ‘It’s ludicrous we are no longer considered a small business’.
(16) There's such a feeling for your neighbour here Ottery St Mary, Devon Percy Franks, 80, pensioner I was a greengrocer in Ottery for 49 years, but also ran a coal business and a wood business.
(17) If you get through a lot, a whole box from a greengrocer will work out significantly cheaper.
(18) Perhaps I'll start a new show, Made in Dollis Hill, similar but set a few miles north, starring me, my neighbours, John the greengrocer, with his van.
(19) Two weeks later, in Hamburg, 500km north, Süleyman Taşköprü, 31, was shot three times and died in his greengrocer’s shop.
(20) The greengrocer's has a huge Ramadan calendar outside, but in the middle of a bright afternoon there are a great many people eating and drinking in public.
Vegetable
Definition:
(v.) Of or pertaining to plants; having the nature of, or produced by, plants; as, a vegetable nature; vegetable growths, juices, etc.
(v.) Consisting of, or comprising, plants; as, the vegetable kingdom.
(v.) Plants having distinct flowers and true seeds.
(v.) Plants without true flowers, and reproduced by minute spores of various kinds, or by simple cell division.
(n.) A plant. See Plant.
(n.) A plant used or cultivated for food for man or domestic animals, as the cabbage, turnip, potato, bean, dandelion, etc.; also, the edible part of such a plant, as prepared for market or the table.
Example Sentences:
(1) An automated continuous flow sample cleanup system intended for rapid screening of foods for pesticide residues in fresh and processed vegetables has been developed.
(2) Among the pathological or abnormal ECGs (25.6%) prevailed the vegetative-functional heart diseases with 92%.
(3) First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
(4) Try the sweet potato falafel, quinoa, roast vegetables, harissa and sumac yogurt ($23).
(5) Adults and immatures of Ixodes pacificus Cooley & Kohls were collected by flagging vegetation and from lizards during a 3-mo period in the Hualapai Mountain Park, Mohave County, AZ, in 1991.
(6) An sdh-specific transcript of about 3,450 nucleotides was detected in vegetative bacteria.
(7) In addition, spontaneous platelet aggregation is increased when vegetations are present on cardiac valves.
(8) ); and 3) those that multiply and produce large numbers of vegetative cells in the food, then release an active enterotoxin when they sporulate in the gut.
(9) The patients had a high AP, consumed more alcohol, were more well-fed, older and consumed more refined carbohydrates per 1 kg bw and less cholesterol and vegetable protein.
(10) Equal numbers of handled and unhandled puparia were planted out at different densities (1, 2, 4 or 8 per linear metre) in fifty-one natural puparial sites in four major vegetation types.
(11) We have used two monoclonal antibodies to demonstrate the presence and localization of actin in interphase and mitotic vegetative cells of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
(12) Instead, they say, we should only eat plenty of lean meat and fish, with fruit and raw vegetables on the side.
(13) Using morhological, neurohistological and histochemical methods the author studied different areas and anatomical structures of the central and peripheral somatic and vegetative nervous system in 4 patients who had died during different periods of rheumatoid arthritis at the age of 27, 48, 51, and 60.
(14) The Xenopus Vg1 gene encodes a maternal mRNA that is localized to the vegetal hemisphere of both oocytes and embryos and encodes a protein related to the TGF-beta family of small secreted growth factors.
(15) This site is present in both vegetative cells and postaggregation cells.
(16) Sterile vegetations were produced in rabbits by placing catheters in the inferior vena cava, tricuspid or aortic valves, and thoracic or abdominal aorta and then were infected by the intravenous inoculation of Streptococcus sanguis.
(17) In the third part, the practical application of this knowledge to processed foods is shown using milk and vegetable protein as examples.
(18) Strong positive associations were found in both sexes for low fruit and vegetable consumption, high intake of salted meat and "mate" ingestion.
(19) Heat vegetable oil and a little bit of butter in a clean pan and fry the egg to your taste.
(20) Headache, vegetative und neurological symptoms are frequent but not necessary companions.