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greengrocer

[ UK /ɡɹˈiːŋɡɹə‍ʊsɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a grocer who sells fresh fruits and vegetables

How To Use greengrocer In A Sentence

  • In one scene he almost runs a greengrocer over and sends boxes of fruit flying through the air. The Sun
  • What is available in the city centre is something that most supermarkets can't provide: the personal service that a market like the Oastler Centre can offer to those wanting to buy meat, fish and greengroceries.
  • East Greenwich is desperately in need of a proper greengrocers within a few minutes walk.
  • The typical Czech "greengrocer" - Havel's famous description of the symbolic Czech Everyman - did not believe Soviet propaganda, but felt helplessly enmeshed in it. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • There is also the full range of greengrocery items. Archive 2007-02-01
  • At the local greengrocer, the oranges were the sweet kind. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ask a greengrocer to get you a root of fresh horseradish, which looks like a dirty, knobbly parsnip.
  • It was an oddly snobbish thing to say about an international tycoon, and Banks spat out the word 'greengrocer' as though selling food were a form of mass murder. Fear and Loathing in Europe
  • Greengrocers lined the sidewalks with the last of the jabalieh tomatoes, big meaty pink and green fruits whose rippling flesh puckered into circles like little baboon butts mooning you all in a row. Day of Honey
  • The local butchers and greengrocers look great, but I never once saw the word ‘organic’ on anything.
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