PRICKLY-SEEDED SPINACH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prickly-seeded spinach mean? 

• PRICKLY-SEEDED SPINACH (noun)
  The noun PRICKLY-SEEDED SPINACH has 1 sense:

1. southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves

  Familiarity information: PRICKLY-SEEDED SPINACH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRICKLY-SEEDED SPINACH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

prickly-seeded spinach; spinach; spinach plant; Spinacia oleracea

Hypernyms ("prickly-seeded spinach" is a kind of...):

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)

Meronyms (parts of "prickly-seeded spinach"):

spinach (dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads)

Holonyms ("prickly-seeded spinach" is a member of...):

genus Spinacia; Spinacia (spinach)