Other forms: greengrocers
A greengrocer is a shopkeeper who sells fruit and vegetables. The local greengrocer, buy it from the greengrocer, a greengrocer's shop.
The trade has been squeezed almost out of British high streets by supermarkets, though the ones that survive usually beat them on quality. The greengrocer's apostrophe is the name for a stray one in a plural, as in apple's.
1noungreengrocerA shopkeeper who sells fruit and vegetables.
“I buy my apples and potatoes from the greengrocer on the corner.”
greengrocer is a shopkeeper.
Green plus grocer, from the seventeenth century, green meaning fresh produce.
From green + grocer.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA