spinach

[ spin-ich ]

/ ˈspɪn ɪtʃ /

a plant, Spinacia oleracea, cultivated for its edible, crinkly or flat leaves.

the leaves.

Origin of spinach

1520–30; < Middle French espinache, espinage < Old Spanish espinaca, alteration of Arabic isfānākh, perhaps < Persian

spin·ach·like, adjective

I should also think about having a protein shake with kale and spinach for breakfast every morning.

Can Daniel Amen Read Your Mind? |Eliza Shapiro |December 14, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Every frozen or fresh package of spinach can contain up to 50 aphids, mites, or thrips before the FDA labels it contaminated.

Forget the Starbucks Backlash—We Should Be Eating More Bugs |Daniel Stone |April 24, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
The mandate is the spinach we have to eat to get the dessert that is fairly priced insurance coverage.

Why the Individual Mandate Is Effective and Efficient |Dr. Jonathan Gruber |March 27, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
At dinner, she instructed the waiter to augment the french fries her husband had ordered with a side of spinach.

On Being the Other Woman in an Affair |Elizabeth Kaye |February 14, 2012 |DAILY BEAST

We sat on small brown cushions on the floor and tucked into spinach stew, grilled chicken, and spicy elbow macaroni.

America's Islamist Allies in Libya |Babak Dehghanpisheh |April 9, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
New Zealand spinach is satisfactory for growing in warm climates, as it withstands heat better than the ordinary spinach.

The Vegetable Garden |Anonymous
I have eaten the young shoots of the common nettles in the spring of the year; they do not make a bad substitute for spinach.

Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children |W. Houghton
And the man who always ate spareribs and spinach and said he was a stock broker asked her to go to "Parsifal" with him.

The Four Million |O. Henry
They are served like Lettuce, or boiled and treated as Coleworts or Spinach.

The Field and Garden Vegetables of America |Fearing Burr
Look the spinach over carefully and remove all roots and dead leaves.

Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 2 |Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

spinach

/ (ˈspɪnɪdʒ, -ɪtʃ) /

a chenopodiaceous annual plant, Spinacia oleracea, cultivated for its dark green edible leaves

the leaves of this plant, eaten as a vegetable

C16: from Old French espinache, from Old Spanish espinaca, from Arabic isfānākh, from Persian