SPINACH

spinach

(noun) dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads

spinach, spinach plant, prickly-seeded spinach, Spinacia oleracea

(noun) southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

spinach (countable and uncountable, plural spinaches)

A particular edible plant, Spinacia oleracea, or its leaves.

Any of numerous plants, or their leaves, which are used for greens in the same way Spinacia oleraceae is.

Chinese spinach, red spinach (Amaranthus dubius)

Malabar spinach red vine spinach, creeping spinach, climbing spinach, vine spinach, buffalo spinach, Ceylon spinach (Basella alba)

mountain spinach (Atriplex hortensis)

mustard spinach (Brassica juncea)

New Zealand spinach (Tetragonia tetragonioides, syn. Tetragonia expansa)

Okinawan spinach (Gynura bicolor)

Sissoo spinach (Alternanthea sissoo)

strawberry spinach (Chenopodium capitatum)

water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica)

(South Africa) wild spinach, African spinach (various nightshade, legume, and Cucurbitaceae species)

spinach beet, perpetual spinach (Beta vulgaris: chard)

Navajo spinach (Cleome serrulata)

Lincolnshire spinach (Blitum bonus-henricus, syn. Chenopodium bonus-henricus: Good King Henry)

French spinach, mountain spinach (Atriplex spp, Chenopodium rubrum)

spinach dock (Rumex acetosa: common sorrel, garden sorrel)

tree spinach

Cnidoscolus aconitifolius: chaya

Chenopodium giganteum: magenta spreen, purple goosefoot, giant lambsquarters

Cuban spinach (Montia perfoliata)

Plants with spinach-like leaves that are noxious in some way

Botany Bay spinach (Tetragonia spp.), which is toxic

Cape spinach (Emex australis), which bears thorny seeds

red spinach (Trianthema triquetra)

Plants with spinach-like leaves that have medicinal use

cholesterol spinach, Mollucan spinach (Gynura nepalensis)

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Source: Wiktionary

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Spin"ach, Spin"age, n. Etym: [OF. espinache, espinoche, F. épinard; cf. F. spinace, Sp. espinaca; all fr. Ar. isfanaj, isfinaj, aspanakh, probably of Persian origin.] (Bot.)

Definition: A common pot herb (Spinacia oleracea) belonging to the Goosefoot family. Mountain spinach. See Garden orache, under Orache.

– New Zealand spinach (Bot.), a coarse herb (Tetragonia expansa), a poor substitute for spinach.

Note: Various other pot herbs are locally called spinach.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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