SPINACH PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spinach plant mean? 

• SPINACH PLANT (noun)
  The noun SPINACH PLANT has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SPINACH PLANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPINACH PLANT (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 ("spinach plant" 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 "spinach plant"):

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

Holonyms ("spinach plant" is a member of...):

genus Spinacia; Spinacia (spinach)