microgreen

micro- +‎ green

microgreen (plural microgreens)

1. The small, young seedling of a plant used as a visual flavor accent and occasionally as a salad green
   • 2007 June 6, Katherine Wheelock, “Dinner at the Foodies’: Purslane and Anxiety”, in New York Times‎:

     I don’t want anyone to be able to say, oh, I see where he got this idea to put microgreens on top of his fish fillets.”

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