greenbrier
- n a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries
greeneye
- n bottom-dwellers having large eyes with metallic green luster
greengrocery
- n groceries sold by a greengrocer
- n a greengrocer's grocery store
greenhood
- n any of numerous orchids of the genus Pterostylis having leaves in a basal rosette and green flowers often striped purple or brown or red with the dorsal sepal incurved to form a hood
greenhouse effect
- n warming that results when solar radiation is trapped by the atmosphere; caused by atmospheric gases that allow sunshine to pass through but absorb heat that is radiated back from the warmed surface of the earth