| 单词 | spinach |
| 释义 | spinach (once / 3714 pages) n Spinach is a leafy green edible plant. The most famous spinach eater is probably Popeye, the cartoon sailor who grows huge, strong arm muscles after eating it. There are many different ways to prepare spinach, from raw in a salad to sauteed with spices and cheese in the Indian dish saag paneer. If you don't pick a spinach plant's leaves, it sprouts white flowers and grows almost a foot tall. Spinach comes from the Old French espinache, with its Persian root, aspanakh — both also mean "spinach." WORD FAMILYspinach: spinaches USAGE EXAMPLESOther names include white beet, strawberry spinach, seakale beet, leaf beet, Sicilian beet, spinach beet, Chilean beet, Roman kale and silverbeet. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) I use red leaf for its autumnal hue and yielding crispness, but green leaf, kale, spinach or escarole would also work well. Washington Post(Dec 14, 2016) Maybe add a side of sauteed spinach, kale or Swiss chard. Washington Post(Dec 12, 2016) 1n southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves Syn|Hyper Spinacia oleracea, prickly-seeded spinach, spinach plant vegetable any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower 2n dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads Hyper green, greens, leafy vegetable any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables |
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