noun
1. leafy greens collected from the wild and used as a substitute for spinach
• Hypernyms: ↑greens, ↑green, ↑leafy vegetable
• Part Holonyms:
↑lamb's-quarters, ↑pigweed, ↑Chenopodium album, ↑good-king-henry, ↑allgood, ↑fat hen, ↑Chenopodium bonus-henricus
2. leaves collected from the wild
• Syn: ↑lamb's-quarter, ↑pigweed
• Hypernyms: ↑greens, ↑green, ↑leafy vegetable
• Part Holonyms: ↑lamb's-quarters, ↑pigweed, ↑Chenopodium album
3. common weedy European plant introduced into North America; often used as a potherb
• Syn: ↑lamb's-quarters, ↑pigweed, ↑Chenopodium album
• Hypernyms: ↑goosefoot
• Part Meronyms: ↑lamb's-quarter, ↑pigweed
4. European plant naturalized in North America; often collected from the wild as a potherb
• Syn: ↑good-king-henry, ↑allgood, ↑fat hen, ↑Chenopodium bonus-henricus
• Hypernyms: ↑goosefoot
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noun : any of several plants of the genus Chenopodium (as C. album and C. bonus-henricus) sometimes used as substitutes for spinach
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any of various plants of the genus Chenopodium, sometimes used in place of spinach.
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wild spinach,
any one of several plants occasionally used as a spinach substitute.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.