prickly-seeded spinach
- noun
- Indian
:
espinaca espinosa
- The farmer grew prickly-seeded spinach in his vegetable garden for a fresh supply of greens.
Examples
-
The local market had a fresh batch of prickly-seeded spinach harvested that morning.
-
Cooks often prefer prickly-seeded spinach because of its robust flavor and tender leaves.
-
I enjoy adding prickly-seeded spinach to my salads.
-
Have you tried prickly-seeded spinach in your smoothies?
-
Cooks often prefer prickly-seeded spinach because of its robust flavor and tender leaves.
-
The farmer grew prickly-seeded spinach in his vegetable garden for a fresh supply of greens.
-
The local market had a fresh batch of prickly-seeded spinach harvested that morning.
Synonyms
94
1.0
A green leafy vegetable eaten raw or cooked
A garden plant with dark green leaves that people eat
A leafy green plant with dark edible leaves eaten as spinach
Surface Forms
Morphology
prickly-seeded + spinach
The phrase is a straightforward adjective+noun composition: 'prickly-seeded' = having prickly seeds, modifying 'spinach', so the meaning 'a type of spinach with prickly seeds' is directly inferable from the constituents. This kind of descriptive compounding follows regular English patterns (adjective/participle + noun) and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows the component words would be able to understand it.
Etymology
Prickly-seeded spinach gets its name from the plant's tiny, sharp seeds: the seeds feel prickly and can stick to clothing or animal fur while the leaves are eaten like ordinary spinach. So the name simply points to a kind of 'spinach' known for its prickly seeds.