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SPINACH

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("spinach" is a kind of...):

green; greens; leafy vegetable (any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables)

Holonyms ("spinach" is a part of...):

prickly-seeded spinach; spinach; spinach plant; Spinacia oleracea (southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("spinach" 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 "spinach"):

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

Holonyms ("spinach" is a member of...):

genus Spinacia; Spinacia (spinach)

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 Context examples: 

The antioxidant capacity of USDA Red was 42–53 percent higher than other spinach cultivars in five tests conducted over three years.

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

For the experiment, researchers first stripped plant cells from spinach leaves and passed beads the size of human blood cells through the leftover vascular system and seeded the spinach veins with human cells that line our blood vessels.

(Human Heart Cells Grown on Spinach Leaves, VOA News)

Compared with other spinach varieties, it has moderate resistance to bolting.

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

USDA Red spinach also works frozen or canned.

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

'Betacyanin adds another benefit to a plant already loaded with phytonutrients, making spinach a true ''super food,"'

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

There are leafy vegetables often called red spinach.

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

A true red spinach like USDA Red will bring excitement to the spinach market and could help attract people back to eating spinach.

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

Red spinach will give processors another choice, said ARS research geneticist Beiquan Mou, who developed the new variety.

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

Spinach has always been known as a green leafy vegetable.

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

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)