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Spinach

noun

Southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves. Synonyms: prickly-seeded spinach, spinach plant, Spinacia oleracea.

Dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads.

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"Spinach" Quotes from Famous Books

... the edible herbs and found them to be something like spinach in taste. There was a chance they might contain the vitamins and minerals needed. Since the hunting parties were living exclusively on meat he would have to point out the edible herbs to all of them so they would know what to eat should any of them feel ...

— Space Prison • Tom Godwin

... salad may be composed of any well-cooked green vegetable, served with a French dressing; string beans, cauliflower, a mixture of peas, turnips, carrots and new beets, boiled radishes, cucumbers, tomatoes, uncooked cabbage, and cooked spinach. In the winter serve celery, lettuce, endive ...

— Sandwiches • Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer

... difference there was in dad in the morning. I woke up about daylight, and dad came into the room with a strange man, with spinach on his chin, and they began to dance, like they had seen the people dance at the show where they had passed the evening. They were undressed, except their underclothes, which wore these combination suits, so when a man gets into them he ...

— Peck's Bad Boy Abroad • George W. Peck

... also found that after twice boiling the leaves a few minutes in water to extract the salt, and then an hour in a third water, the leaves formed a tender and palatable vegetable, somewhat resembling spinach. As the superior excellence of these runs for fattening cattle is admitted on all hands, as compared with others more abundant in grass on the eastern side of the great range, would it not be advisable ...

— Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia • Thomas Mitchell

... was a young lady of Greenwich, Whose garments were border'd with Spinach; But a large spotty Calf bit her shawl quite in half, Which alarmed ...

— Nonsense Books • Edward Lear

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