| 释义 |
spin·ach
noun
or spin·age \ˈspinich, -nēch sometimes -nij or -nēj\
(plural spinaches or spinages)
Etymology: Middle French espinache, espinage, from Old Spanish espinaca, from Arabic isbānakh, isfānākh, from Persian isfānākh
1. : an annual potherb (Spinacia oleracea) native to southwestern Asia and cultivated widely for its edible leaves which are used as greens — called also prickly-seeded spinach
2.
a. : something repellent, obnoxious, or nonexistent : something spurious or unwanted
< the bankers' pet … was just so much spinach as far as the plain people were concerned — Jay Franklin >
< the spinach of controlled, cooperative effort — H.A.Moe >
b. : an untidy overgrowth (as an untrimmed lawn or beard)
c. : an inessential, irrelevant, or inharmonious excrescence, addition, or decoration : frill
< a child … has no interest in literary and artistic spinach — Rochelle Girson >
< might look at the externals of an airplane and see only struts, wires, and other such spinach — Air World > |