葉よう菜さい類るい

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Meanings

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noun

leafy vegetables; leaf vegetables

A category term used in agriculture, cooking, and nutrition to refer to vegetables grown primarily for their edible leaves, such as spinach, lettuce, and komatsuna.

葉よう菜さい類るいにはほうれん草そうやレタスなどが含ふくまれる。
Leafy vegetables include spinach, lettuce, and the like.

leaf, plane, lobe

菜vegetable, side dish, greens

類sort, kind, variety

Similar words

根こん菜さい類るい
Refers to root vegetables (e.g., carrots, radishes), contrasting with the leaf-focused 葉菜類.
果か菜さい類るい
Refers to fruit vegetables (e.g., tomatoes, cucumbers), another contrasting category.

Etymology

Compound of 葉 (leaf), 菜 (vegetable), and 類 (category). The term is a modern technical classification.