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wild spinach
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.