Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - spinach
Spinach
spinach
n. 1 a green garden vegetable, Spinacia oleracea, with succulent leaves. 2 the leaves of this plant used as food. Phrases and idioms spinach beet a variety of beetroot cultivated for its edible leaves. Derivatives spinaceous adj. spinachy adj. Etymology: prob. MDu. spinaetse, spinag(i)e, f. OF espinage, espinache f. med.L spinac(h)ia etc. f. Arab. ' isfanak f. Pers. ispanak: perh. assim. to L spina SPINE, with ref. to its prickly seeds
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noun Etymology: Middle English ~e, from Anglo-French, alteration of Old French espinaces, from Medieval Latin ~ium, ultimately from Arabic isfānākh, from Persian Date: 15th century an Asian herb (Spinacia oleracea) of the goosefoot family cultivated for its edible leaves which form in a dense basal rosette, 2. something unwanted, pretentious, or spurious, an untidy overgrowth, ~like adjective ~y adjective ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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