spinach

• spinage (obsolete)
• spinnach (obsolete)

From Middle English spinach, from Anglo-Norman spinache, from Old French espinoche, from Old Occitan espinarc, from Arabic إِسْفَانَاخ (ʔisfānāḵ), from Classical Persian اسپناخ (ispanāx, ispināx).

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈspɪnɪt͡ʃ/, /ˈspɪnɪd͡ʒ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪnɪtʃ, -ɪnɪdʒ

spinach (countable and uncountable, plural spinaches)

1. A particular edible plant, Spinacia oleracea, or its leaves.
2. Any of numerous plants, or their leaves, which are used for greens in the same way Spinacia oleraceae is or resemble it in some way.

• African spinach (various nightshade, legume, and Cucurbitaceae species)
• Botany Bay spinach (Tetragonia tetragonioides)
• buffalo spinach (Basella alba)
• Cape spinach (Emex australis)
• Ceylon spinach (Basella alba)
• Chinese spinach (Amaranthus dubius)
• cholesterol spinach (Gynura nepalensis)
• climbing spinach (vine spinach (Basella alba)
• creeping spinach (Basella alba)
• Cuban spinach (Claytonia perfoliata, syn. Montia perfoliata)
• Egyptian spinach
• French spinach (Atriplex spp., Chenopodium rubrum)
• gammon and spinach
• Lincolnshire spinach (Blitum bonus-henricus, syn. Chenopodium bonus-henricus)
• Malabar spinach (Basella alba)
• Mollucan spinach (Gynura nepalensis)
• mountain spinach (Atriplex hortensis)
• mustard spinach (Brassica juncea)
• Navajo spinach (Cleome serrulata)
• New Zealand spinach (Tetragonia tetragonioides, syn. Tetragonia expansa)
• Okinawan spinach (Gynura bicolor)
• perpetual spinach (Beta vulgaris)
• red spinach (Amaranthus dubius; Trianthema triquetra)
• red vine spinach (Basella alba)
• sand and spinach
• Sissoo spinach (Alternanthera sessilis, syn. Alternanthera sissoo)
• spinach beet (Beta vulgaris)
• spinach dip
• spinach dock (Rumex acetosa)
• spinach mustard
• strawberry spinach (Chenopodium capitatum)
• tree spinach (Cnidoscolus aconitifolius, Cnidoscolus chayamansa)
• vine spinach (Basella alba)
• water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica)
• wild spinach (various nightshade, legume, and Cucurbitaceae species)

• Popeye

• Chapins

• spinage, spynache, spynage, spinoch, spynoch, spinarge, spynarche

From Anglo-Norman spinache, from Old Occitan espinarc, from Arabic إِسْفَانَاخ (ʔisfānāḵ), from Persian اسپناخ (espanâx).

• IPA^(key): /ˈspinatʃ(ə)/, /ˈspinadʒ(ə)/, /ˈspinartʃ(ə)/

spinach (plural spinoches)

1. spinach (Spinacia oleracea)

• English: spinach

• “spinache, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-24.

• IPA^(key): /ˈspi.nax/
• Rhymes: -inax
• Syllabification: spi‧nach

spinach m

1. locative plural of spin

spinach f

1. locative plural of spina