spinach : Idioms & Phrases

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cuban spinach

  • noun succulent herb sometimes grown as a salad or pot herb; grows on dunes and waste ground of Pacific coast of North America
    Montia perfoliata; winter purslane; miner's lettuce.
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french spinach

  • noun common Eurasian weed; naturalized in United States
    red goosefoot; Chenopodium rubrum.
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Mountain spinach

  • noun Asiatic plant resembling spinach often used as a potherb; naturalized in Europe and North America
    garden orache; Atriplex hortensis.
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  • . (Bot.) See Orach.
  • . See Garden orache, under Orache.
Webster 1913

New Zealand spinach

  • noun coarse sprawling Australasian plant with red or yellow flowers; cultivated for its edible young shoots and succulent leaves
    Tetragonia expansa; Tetragonia tetragonioides.
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  • (Bot.), a coarse herb (Tetragonia expansa), a poor substitute for spinach.
Webster 1913

prickly-seeded spinach

  • noun southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves
    Spinacia oleracea; prickly-seeded spinach; spinach.
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spinach beet

  • noun beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks
    Swiss chard; Beta vulgaris cicla; chard plant; leaf beet; chard.
  • noun long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves
    leaf beet; Swiss chard; chard.
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spinach blight

  • noun a disease of spinach plants
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spinach mustard

  • noun Asiatic plant cultivated for its swollen root crown and edible foliage
    Brassica rapa perviridis; tendergreen; Brassica perviridis.
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spinach plant

  • noun southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves
    Spinacia oleracea; prickly-seeded spinach; spinach.
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wild spinach

  • noun European plant naturalized in North America; often collected from the wild as a potherb
    allgood; Chenopodium bonus-henricus; fat hen; good-king-henry.
  • noun common weedy European plant introduced into North America; often used as a potherb
    pigweed; Chenopodium album; lamb's-quarters.
  • noun leafy greens collected from the wild and used as a substitute for spinach
  • noun leaves collected from the wild
    pigweed; lamb's-quarter.
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