SPINACIA OLERACEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Spinacia oleracea mean? 

• SPINACIA OLERACEA (noun)
  The noun SPINACIA OLERACEA has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SPINACIA OLERACEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPINACIA OLERACEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

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

Hypernyms ("Spinacia oleracea" 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 "Spinacia oleracea"):

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

Holonyms ("Spinacia oleracea" is a member of...):

genus Spinacia; Spinacia (spinach)

 Context examples 

But these are actually red-leaf amaranths (Amaranthus spp.) or other plants such as Red Goosefoot (Blitum rubrum), not true spinach (Spinacia oleracea).

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