Crossword clues for spinach
spinach
- Healthy food — or chips an alternative
- Dark green vegetable
- Salad green
- Leafy green vegetable found in V8 juice
- Green vegetable in eggs Florentine
- V8 vegetable
- Popeye's energizer
- Antioxidant source
- Strength-building food of comics
- Vitamin K-rich food
- Veggie favored by Popeye
- V-8 ingredient
- Target of a 2006 food recall
- Popeye's vegetable
- Popeye's strengthener
- Popeye's power provider
- Popeye's pick-me-up
- Popeye's favorite veggie
- Popeye's favorite vegetable
- Popeye's favorite food
- Popeye's energy source
- Popeye's 'fuel'
- One of the eight vegetables in V8
- Key ingredient in a Florentine dish
- Ingredient in a Florentine dish
- Florentine recipe feature
- Florentine ingredient
- Oysters Rockefeller ingredient
- Popeye's muscle builder
- SoufflГ© flavorer
- Ingredient in Florentine dishes
- Catherine de' Medici is said to have eaten it at every meal
- Muscle builder for Popeye
- Eaten cooked or raw in salads
- Dark green leaves
- Southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves
- Soufflé flavorer
- Bluto's bane
- Hawes's "Fashion Is ___"
- Source of Popeye's strength
- Vegetable
- Popeye favorite
- Vegetable drinks knocked back by a companion
- Eggs Florentine ingredient
- With end of fingers, squeeze round a vegetable
- Sweet painting, say, on web page program
- Hurries back with a companion, getting vegetable
- Leaves with story about making Cornish pasty
- Leaves hospital after cycle ride leads to accidental crash
- Roll a companion leaves on plate?
- Popeye's tip: his can supply contains it?
- Popeye the Sailor's vegetable of choice
- Picking up fruit in tin? On the contrary, veg
- Iron-rich vegetable
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spinach \Spin"ach\, Spinage \Spin"age\, n. [OF. espinache, espinoche, F. ['e]pinard; cf. F. spinace, Sp. espinaca; all fr. Ar. isf[=a]n[=a]j, isfin[=a]j, aspan[=a]kh, probably of Persian origin.] (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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400 (late 13c. as a surname), from Anglo-French spinache, Old French espinache (14c., Modern French épinard, from a form with a different suffix), from Old Provençal espinarc, which perhaps is via Catalan espinac, from Andalusian Arabic isbinakh, from Arabic isbanakh, from Persian aspanakh "spinach." But OED is not convinced the Middle Eastern words are native, and based on the plethora of Romanic forms pronounces the origin "doubtful."\n
\nPopeye, the spinach-eating superman, debuted in 1929. Old folk etymology connected the word with Latin spina (see spine) or with Medieval Latin Hispanicum olus. For pronunciation, see cabbage. In 1930s colloquial American English, it had a sense of "nonsense, rubbish," based on a famous "New Yorker" cartoon of Dec. 8, 1928. Related: spinaceous.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A particular edible plant, ''Spinacia oleracea'', or its leaves. 2 Any of numerous plants, or their leaves, which are used for greens in the same way ''Spinacia oleraceae'' is. 3 # Chinese spinach, (vern red spinach pedia=1) ((taxlink Amaranthus dubius species noshow=1)) 4 # Malabar spinach ((taxlink Basella alba species noshow=1)), (vern red vine spinach pedia=1), (vern creeping spinach pedia=1), (vern climbing spinach pedia=1) 5 # New Zealand spinach ((taxlink Tetragonia tetragonioides species noshow=1)) 6 # water spinach ((taxlink Ipomoea aquatica species noshow=1)) 7 # (label en South Africa) (vern wild spinach pedia=1), (vern African spinach pedia=1) (various nightshade, legume, and Cucurbitaceae species) 8 # (vern spinach beet pedia=1), (vern perpetual spinach pedia=1) (''Beta vulgaris'': chard) 9 # (vern Navajo spinach pedia=1) ((taxlink Cleome serrulata species noshow=1)) 10 # Lincolnshire spinach ((taxlink Chenopodium bonus-henricus species noshow=1): Good King Henry) 11 # (vern French spinach pedia=1) mountain spinach ''Atriplex'' spp. 12 # (vern spinach dock pedia=1) ((taxlink Rumex acetosa species noshow=1): (vern common sorrel pedia=1), (vern garden sorrel pedia=1)) 13 # (vern tree spinach pedia=1) ((taxlink Cnidoscolus aconitifolius species noshow=1): chaya, (taxlink Chenopodium giganteum species noshow=1): (vern magenta spreen pedia=1), (vern purple goosefoot pedia=1), (vern giant lambsquarters pedia=1))
WordNet
n. southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves [syn: spinach plant, prickly-seeded spinach, Spinacia oleracea]
dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads
Wikipedia
Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) is an edible flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae native to central and western Asia.
It is an annual plant (rarely biennial), which grows up to 30 cm tall. Spinach may survive over winter in temperate regions. The leaves are alternate, simple, ovate to triangular, and very variable in size from about 2–30 cm long and 1–15 cm broad, with larger leaves at the base of the plant and small leaves higher on the flowering stem. The flowers are inconspicuous, yellow-green, 3–4 mm in diameter, maturing into a small, hard, dry, lumpy fruit cluster 5–10 mm across containing several seeds.
Common spinach, S. oleracea, was long considered to be in the family Chenopodiaceae, but in 2003, that family was merged into the family Amaranthaceae in the order Caryophyllales. Within the family Amaranthaceae sensu lato, Spinach belongs to subfamily Chenopodioideae.
The spinach (Eulithis mellinata) is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found throughout much of the Palearctic region and the Near East though its distribution is rather local due to its specialized larval food plant. In the British Isles it is fairly common in England and Wales but much rarer in Scotland and Ireland.
Its wingspan is 33–38 mm. The forewings are yellow marked with brown fascia and apical streak with brown chequering on the fringe. The hindwings are plain cream but are rarely seen as the species usually rests in a very distinctive and characteristic way with the forewings held out at 90° to the body with the hindwings hidden behind them. Some other members of the genus such as the northern spinach and barred straw rest in a similar way. The species flies at night from June to August and is attracted to light.
The larva is green with white lines and feeds exclusively on currants. The species overwinters as an egg.
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The flight season refers to the British Isles. This may vary in other parts of the range.
Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) is an edible flowering plant in the family of Amaranthaceae.
Spinach may also refer to:
- Spinach aptamer, a synthetic RNA aptamer designed as a mimic of green fluorescent protein
- Spinach (moth) (Eulithis mellinata), a moth of the family Geometridae
- Amaranthus dubius, known as red spinach or Chinese spinach
- Atriplex hortensis, known as mountain spinach or French spinach
- Basella alba, known as Malabar spinach, red vine spinach, creeping spinach or climbing spinach
- Chard (Beta vulgaris), also known as spinach beet, silverbeet or perpetual spinach
- Cleome serrulata, known as Navajo spinach
- Good King Henry (Chenopodium bonus-henricus), also known as Lincolnshire spinach
- Ipomoea aquatica, known as water spinach, river spinach or Chinese spinach
- Morogo, or African spinach, referring to a group of at least three different dark green leafy vegetables
- Sorrel (Rumex acetosa), also known as spinach dock
- Tetragonia tetragonioides, known as New Zealand spinach or sea spinach
Usage examples of "spinach".
Prairie grabbed a kettle of institutional tomato soup, carried it on in, and for the next couple of hours she also schlepped racks of newly washed cups and dishes in and bused dirty dishes out, cleaned off tabletops, poured coffee, going from one set of chores to another as they arose, sensing partial vacuums and flowing there to fill them, unable to help noticing that people were taking seconds on the Spinach Casserole, and the baloney too.
For the meat eaters, a number of giant baloneys were set to roasting whole on spits, to be turned and attentively basted with a grape-jelly glaze by once-quarrelsome kitchen staff while others made croutons from old bread, bustling about while the spinach thawed, singing along with the radio, which someone had mercifully re-tuned to a rock and roll station.
Tandoor in Cleveland, in the torpid afterglow of Jhinga Biryani, lightly spiced rice and shrimp, Baigan Bharta, rich and pungent roasted eggplant, Palak Raita, a spinach and yogurt condiment that cools the palate, and the wondrous Indian bread naan.
I have already mentioned, a package of sliced bacon, a box of soap chips, and a paper sack of spinach, among the green leaves of which glowed, when I emptied them out on the showcase, the hard crystal facets of unset diamonds.
We served an appetizer of jalapeno mango-lime ice, vinegar steamed crab legs and spinach salad with asiago garlic dressing.
French dressing and boeuf Stroganov with spinach, and late-crop strawberries and cream, and a mushroom and bacon and prune savory.
Without expecting game, some useful plant might be met with, and the young naturalist was delighted with discovering a sort of wild spinach, belonging to the order of chenopodiaceae, and numerous specimens of cruciferae, belonging to the cabbage tribe, which it would certainly be possible to cultivate by transplanting.
Giving evidence, Detective Chief Inspector Wilkes said that cowbane had been introduced into a spinach quiche by accident.
Economides, had stated to the police that the cowbane must have become mixed with the spinach by accident.
There was walnut bread and a slab of sweet French butter, and spinach fettuccini with a fresh tomato sauce topped with tiny vegetables.
I like it, roasted potatoes with hollandaise sauce, and a spinach salad with hot bacon dressing.
Omega-8 fatty acids help lubricate joints, and the spinach contains bone-boosting calcium.
Hatred is a soft word for what I felt toward him, but while I was sitting at that table, eating prawns and then lamb, the spinach and potatoes, drinking the Merlot, which was excellent by the way, smooth and dark, while I was sitting at that table, my emotions softened.
My son Francis placed a thin slice of spinach leaf, moistened with saliva, on a leaf of Drosera, and other slices on damp cottonwool, all exposed to the same temperature.
Angela between them conjured up homemade soup, trout with almonds, lamb cutlets with spinach from the garden and a rhubarb crumble with cream.