SPINACH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spinach mean? 

• SPINACH (noun)
  The noun SPINACH has 2 senses:

1. southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves

2. dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads

  Familiarity information: SPINACH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPINACH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

prickly-seeded spinach; spinach; spinach plant; Spinacia oleracea

Hypernyms ("spinach" is a kind of...):

vegetable (any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower)

Meronyms (parts of "spinach"):

spinach (dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads)

Holonyms ("spinach" is a member of...):

genus Spinacia; Spinacia (spinach)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("spinach" is a kind of...):

green; greens; leafy vegetable (any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables)

Holonyms ("spinach" is a part of...):

prickly-seeded spinach; spinach; spinach plant; Spinacia oleracea (southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves)

 Context examples 

USDA Red, the world's first true red spinach variety has been developed and released by the Agricultural Research Service.

(World's First True Red Spinach Variety Released, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Researchers say they’ve grown beating human heart cells on spinach leaves, using the vascular network of the plant to transport fluids.

(Human Heart Cells Grown on Spinach Leaves, VOA News)

Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California have found potassium-rich vegetables like sweet potatoes, avocados, spinach, beans and bananas could help lower blood pressure.

(Study: Fruits and Vegetables Can Lower Blood Pressure, VOA)

At first, the researchers tried to use spinach and kale cells, but the chloroplasts, the structures where photosynthesis occurs, were not stable enough to live outside the plant.

(Oxygen-Producing Bacteria Could Help Heart Attack Sufferers, VOA News)

Alpha-lipoic acid is made by the body and can be found in foods such as organ meats, spinach, broccoli, peas, brussel sprouts, and rice bran.

(Alpha-lipoic acid, NCI Dictionary)

Coenzyme Q10 is fat-soluble (can dissolve in fats and oils) and is found in fatty fish, beef, soybeans, peanuts, and spinach.

(coenzyme Q10, NCI Dictionary)

CoQ10 is fat-soluble (can dissolve in fats and oils) and is found in fatty fish, beef, soybeans, peanuts, and spinach.

(CoQ10, NCI Dictionary)

His hostess would hear nothing of his paying either for bed or for board, while the archer and Hordle John placed a hand upon either shoulder and led him off to the board, where some smoking fish, a dish of spinach, and a jug of milk were laid out for their breakfast.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The red-veined spinach variety Bordeaux is a parent of USDA Red.

(World's First True Red Spinach Variety Released, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

The spinach leaf might be better suited for a highly vascularized tissue, like cardiac tissue, whereas the cylindrical hollow structure of the stem of Impatiens capensis (jewelweed) might better suit an arterial graft.

(Human Heart Cells Grown on Spinach Leaves, VOA News)