Noun

A particular edible plant, Spinacia oleracea , or its leaves.

Any of numerous plants, or their leaves, which are used for greens in the same way Spinacia oleraceae is.

# Chinese spinach, )

# Malabar spinach (

# New Zealand spinach ()

# water spinach ()

# (label) (various nightshade, legume, and Cucurbitaceae species)

# (Beta vulgaris : chard)

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# Lincolnshire spinach (: Good King Henry)

# mountain spinach Atriplex spp.

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Noun

* {{quote-book, year=1764, author=Elizabeth Moxon, title=English Housewifery Exemplified, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Take a quart of good boiling pease which put into a pot with a gallon of soft water whilst cold; add thereto a little beef or mutton, a little hung beef or bacon, and two or three large onions; boil all together while your soop is thick; salt it to your taste, and thicken it with a little wheat-flour; strain it thro' a cullender, boil a little sellery, cut it in small pieces, with a little crisp bread, and crisp a little spinage , as you would do parsley, then put it in a dish, and serve it up. }}