Spin·ach, Spin·age n. Bot. A common pot herb (Spinacia oleracea) belonging to the Goosefoot family.
Mountain spinach. See Garden orache, under Orache.
New Zealand spinach Bot., a coarse herb (Tetragonia expansa), a poor substitute for spinach.
Note: ☞ Various other pot herbs are locally called spinach.
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Tetragonia expansa
n : coarse sprawling Australasian plant with red or yellow
flowers; cultivated for its edible young shoots and
succulent leaves [syn: New Zealand spinach, Tetragonia
tetragonioides]