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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. coarse sprawling Australasian plant with red or yellow flowers; cultivated for its edible young shoots and succulent leaves;
[syn: New Zealand spinach, Tetragonia tetragonioides, Tetragonia expansa]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Spinach \Spin"ach\, Spinage \Spin"age\, n. [OF. espinache, espinoche, F. ['e]pinard; cf. F. spinace, Sp. espinaca; all fr. Ar. isf[=a]n[=a]j, isfin[=a]j, aspan[=a]kh, probably of Persian origin.] (Bot.) A common pot herb (Spinacia oleracea) belonging to the Goosefoot family. [1913 Webster] Mountain spinach. See Garden orache, under Orache. New Zealand spinach (Bot.), a coarse herb (Tetragonia expansa), a poor substitute for spinach. [1913 Webster] Note: Various other pot herbs are locally called spinach. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Tetragonia expansa n 1: coarse sprawling Australasian plant with red or yellow flowers; cultivated for its edible young shoots and succulent leaves [syn: New Zealand spinach, Tetragonia tetragonioides, Tetragonia expansa]