chop-suey greens

Questions about chop-suey greens

What is another word for chop-suey greens?

It depends which chop-suey greens you mean. In the sense “grown for its succulent edible leaves used in Asian cooking”, the synonyms are tong ho, shun giku, Chrysanthemum coronarium spatiosum. Across all 2 senses there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of chop-suey greens?

WordNet records no antonym for chop-suey greens. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Why are the synonyms for chop-suey greens split into groups?

Because chop-suey greens carries 2 recorded senses and each has its own set of substitutes. A single flat list would put words from unrelated meanings side by side with nothing to tell them apart, which is exactly how a writer picks the wrong one. The grouping comes from WordNet's synsets, not from an editorial judgement of ours.

Where do the synonyms for chop-suey greens come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of chop-suey greens

• Full entry for chop-suey greensAll 2 senses, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for chop-suey greensWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.