spinach
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- spinage (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English spinach, from Anglo-Norman spinache, from Old French espinoche, from Old Provençal espinarc, from Arabic اِسْفَانَاخ (isfānāḵ), from Persian اسپناخ (ispanākh).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
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 (Basella alba), red vine spinach, creeping spinach, climbing spinach
- New Zealand spinach (Tetragonia tetragonioides)
- 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 (Chenopodium bonus-henricus: Good King Henry)
- French spinach mountain spinach Atriplex spp.
- spinach dock (Rumex acetosa}: common sorrel, garden sorrel)
- tree spinach:
Translations[edit]
a particular edible plant, Spinacia oleracea
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- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Anglo-Norman
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Old Provençal
- English terms derived from Arabic
- English terms derived from Persian
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- South African English
- en:Vegetables
- en:Amaranths and goosefoots
- en:Morning glory family plants
- en:Buckwheat family plants
- en:Spurges
- en:Caryophyllales order plants
- en:Brassicales order plants
