(n) coarse sprawling Australasian plant with red or yellow flowers; cultivated for its edible young shoots and succulent leaves, Syn. Tetragonia tetragonioides, Tetragonia expansa
(n) succulent herb sometimes grown as a salad or pot herb; grows on dunes and waste ground of Pacific coast of North America, Syn. miner's lettuce, Montia perfoliata, Cuban spinach
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53 Collaborative International Dictionary (GCIDE)
n. 1. a beet lacking a swollen root; it is grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks. Syn. -- chard, Swiss chard, spinach beet, leaf beet, chard plant, Beta vulgaris cicla. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
2. a plant with long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves. Syn. -- chard, Swiss chard, spinach beet, leaf beet. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
{ } n. [ OF. espinache, espinoche, F. épinard; cf. F. spinace, Sp. espinaca; all fr. Ar. isfānāj, isfināj, aspanākh, probably of Persian origin. ] (Bot.) A common pot herb (Spinacia oleracea) belonging to the Goosefoot family. [ 1913 Webster ]
Mountain spinach. See Garden orache, under Orache. -- New Zealand spinach (Bot.), a coarse herb (Tetragonia expansa), a poor substitute for spinach. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ Various other pot herbs are locally called spinach. [ 1913 Webster ]
[蕹菜, wèng càiㄨㄥˋ ㄘㄞˋ] water spinach or ong choy (Ipomoea aquatica), used as a vegetable in south China and southeast Asia; water convolvulus; water morning glory#163622
[くる, kuru] (vk, vi, aux-v) (1) to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to arrive; (2) (See 行って来る) to come back; to do ... and come back; (3) to come to be; to become; to get; to grow; to continue; (vk, vi) (4) to come from; to be caused by; to derive from; (5) (See と来たら) to come to (i.e. "when it comes to spinach ..."); (P)#4016
[チンゲンさい(チンゲン菜);ちんげんさい(青梗菜);チンゲンサイ, chingen sai ( chingen na ); chingensai ( ao kyou na ); chingensai] (n) qinggengcai (spinach-like green vegetable originating in China); pak choi; bok choi; bok choy
[くうしんさい, kuushinsai] (n) (See 甕菜) ipomoea aquatica; kang kong; water morning glory; (Chinese) water spinach; water convolvulus; swamp cabbage; ong choy; hung tsai; rau muong; pak boong