单词 | spinach |
释义 | spinach n.   1. a green garden vegetable, Spinacia oleracea, with succulent leaves.   2. the leaves of this plant used as food. Phrases and idioms spinach beet a variety of beetroot cultivated for its edible leaves. Derivatives spinaceous adj. spinachy adj. Etymology: prob. MDu. spinaetse, spinag(i)e, f. OF espinage, espinache f. med.L spinac(h)ia etc. f. Arab. ' isfanak f. Pers. ispanak: perh. assim. to L spina SPINE, with ref. to its prickly seeds |
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