What is "greenstuff"

Usage examples of "greenstuff".

The whale-boats were putting off for their last few loads of greenstuff and eggs, and their crews called out, friendly and familiar, as Stephen went aboard.

Desolation, though when he saw the Leopard in there, he had very nearly turned about, and would have, too, but that the tide was on the make, the breeze in his teeth, and no other sheltered harbour, with greenstuff at hand, that he knew of anywhere under his lee.

All the lush greenstuff seemed to be issuing its sap, till the air was deathly, sickly with the smell of greenness.

Then she started coughing as she never coughed before, and more of the greenstuff came splattering over her hands and down her chin.

Analysis shows animal to be nourished on fresh greenstuff as gathered in any field.

Then she started coughing as she had never coughed before, and more of the greenstuff came splattering over her hands and down her chin.

I have no hopes of anything but greenstuff and fresh fruit: which reminds me - will you sup with us tonight?

As for your greenstuff, my purser has an excellent unofficial man on shore, will rouse you out any quantity in half an hour.

When he had entered the town, and was riding along the streets, he saw that the priests were purchasing palms and other greenstuff, which were being sold at the market for the procession the next day.

He held up a bit of greenstuff extracted from the deer food that Rene had scooped up at the feeding station, explaining that it was Chinese yew, a tree that deer loved but that was deadly poisonous to dogs.

Stemond would show her his detailed, intricately painted maps, and talk to her of the gold and jewels, shining silver and ruddy copper torn from her own northern mountains, the feasts of meats, grains, and greenstuffs from the fertile plains, and rich spices and exotic wines from the strange, faraway lands of the south where the heat lay across the olive-silvered hills like a mantle of heavy silk.

They eat mainly grass and greenstuffs, so what is the harm in encouraging their multiplication in captivity?