Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An annual plant (Spinacia oleracea) native to southwest Asia, widely cultivated for its succulent edible leaves.
- noun The leaves of this plant, eaten as a vegetable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A chenopodiaceous garden vegetable of the genus Spinacia, producing thick succulent leaves, which, when boiled and seasoned, form a pleasant and wholesome, though not highly flavored dish.
- noun One of several other plants affording a dish like spinach. See phrases below.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A common pot herb (
Spinacia oleracea ) belonging to the Goosefoot family. - noun See Garden orache, under
Orache . - noun (Bot.) a coarse herb (
Tetragonia expansa ), a poor substitute for spinach.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A particular
edible plant ,Spinacia oleracea . - noun Any of numerous plants which are used for
greens in the same way spinach is.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves
- noun dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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When all the spinach is added, cook until still bright green but fully cooked (taste if there's any question).
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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Just cut a stick of feta, cover it in spinach (I thawed whole leaf spinach from my freezer – if you use fresh parboil them so they wilt and press out the water), then roll the feta-spinach roll up in the dough triangle.
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True spinach is (like peas) one of those vegetables which depend on the man-from-Del-Monte moment.
Jean's Knitting Jean 2009
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Frozen spinach is NOT a good thing in this recipe.
Palak Paneer is a good thing...... Cardamom 2009
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"The only thing that I hate more intensely than melodrama and spinach is myself."
Saul Bellow's widow on his life and letters: 'His gift was to love and be loved' Rachel Cooke 2010
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True spinach is (like peas) one of those vegetables which depend on the man-from-Del-Monte moment.
Archive 2009-09-01 Jean 2009
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Maria, because the spinach is cooked so quickly, it keeps it's lovely color.
Recipes for Spinach Skordalia & Crispy Salmon Fingers (Σκορδαλιά με Σπανάκι & Σολομός Τηγανητός) Laurie Constantino 2009
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We looked in on the chickens, fed the koi, walked the perimeter of the deer fence to make sure there were no breaks in it anywhere (it keeps the deer out of the garden, where the spinach is just starting to sprout).
ELLISON v. CBS-PARAMOUNT, Inc. greygirlbeast 2009
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The tender Malabar spinach is still setting fleshy pink flowers, and the castor bean plant, towering, mesmerizing and deadly poisonous, displays its layers of purple leaves the size of a blacksmith's hand.
In Washington, a frost on election day Adrian Higgins 2010
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Bright green spinach is folded into mildly spiced yogurt.
Archive 2008-06-01 Nupur 2008
whichbe commented on the word spinach
Popular food among Public Relations executives and Popeye.
December 3, 2008
fbharjo commented on the word spinach
Etymology: Middle French espinache, espinage, from Old Spanish espinaca, from Arabic isbnakh, isfinaakh, from Persian aspanakh.
August 31, 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word spinach
I love this definition from the Century: "1. A chenopodiaceous garden vegetable of the genus Spinacia, producing thick succulent leaves, which, when boiled and seasoned, form a pleasant and wholesome, though not highly flavored dish."
June 30, 2011
yarb commented on the word spinach
CSP always struck me as a meat-and-potatoes man.
June 30, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word spinach
I'm not sure whether CSP worked on this one. I just went to the Peirce Edition Project's site and saw spin, spindle-curve, and Spinozism, but no spinach.
July 1, 2011
yarb commented on the word spinach
If they're so succulent, why do they require seasoning and boiling??
Heads need to roll over this one.
July 1, 2011