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spinach

spinach

94 1.0
A green leafy vegetable eaten raw or cooked
  • noun
  • /ˈspɪnɪtʃ/
translation icon : espinaca
  • I've had spinach dip, spinach artichoke dip.
  • spinach and broccoli
  • spinach and lettuce
  • spinach and strawberries

However, much like spinach, it goes to seed so quickly.

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Examples

  • We've got fruit, cheese, spinach and pasta.

  • - Okay, I need some spinach for a salad.

  • Yeah, got some spinach for the little guys.

  • Why do we have spinach from China?

  • Think I'm going to grab some spinach as well.

  • With potatoes and maybe some spinach.

  • She eats her spinach every day.

  • Poached eggs on toast, spinach, and a baked apple.

  • She eats fish, she eats some nuts and spinach salad for dinner.

  • For dinner, I made a delicious salad with fresh spinach and cherry tomatoes.

Synonyms

Spinacia oleracea
vsspinach
  • Specialized
6.5

A leafy green plant with dark edible leaves eaten as spinach

is the common cooking and market name rather than the scientific term
spinach plant
vsspinach
1.6

A garden plant with dark green leaves that people eat

is the general vegetable term focusing on edible leaves for cooking or raw use
prickly-seeded spinach
vsspinach
  • Indian
8.6

A leafy green plant with small prickly seeds that people grow for its tender dark leaves used in cooking

is the broad common vegetable name not limited to regional varieties

Compounds

Cuban spinach
  • Specialized
9.2

A soft leafy herb like spinach that people grow and eat as a salad or cooked green

French spinach
  • Specialized
9.4

A leafy plant like spinach that people grow to eat and that often grows wild in gardens

A leafy plant from Asia with edible leaves used like spinach

New Zealand spinach
  • Australian
6.8

A spreading garden plant with thick edible leaves used like spinach

A leafy green plant with small prickly seeds that people grow for its tender dark leaves used in cooking

spinach blight
  • Specialized
6.8

A disease that makes spinach leaves turn yellow and wilt

A leafy Asian plant with a swollen root crown that you can eat raw or cooked

A garden plant with dark green leaves that people eat

4.2

A leafy vegetable grown for its leaves and stalks instead of its root

Green leaves that grow wild and people collect to eat

How Peppery

wasabi
2 5.2
arugula
  • US
22 5.7
mustard
12 2.0
mizuna
1 7.6
spinach
94 1.0
lettuce
93 1.0

Surface Forms

spinach singular
spinaches plural

Etymology

Spinach comes from Persian aspanakh and Arabic isfanakh, early names for the same green leaf that moved into Latin and Old French before English. So spinach still means the dark green leafy vegetable people eat raw or cooked.