spinach
/ˈspɪnɪd͡ʒ/ · spin·ach
noun
- A particular edible plant, Spinacia oleracea, or its leaves, commonly used as a leafy green vegetable. She added fresh spinach to the soup for extra nutrition.
- Any of numerous plants, or their leaves, which are used for greens in the same way Spinacia oleracea is. The farmer grew spinach, beet greens, and other spinach-like greens for the market.
- Plants with spinach-like leaves that are noxious in some way. The invasive spinach-like weed choked out the garden’s native species.
Did you know? Spinach’s famed iron content was exaggerated by an 1870s decimal-point error that overstated its iron levels by a factor of ten.