spinach

as ingreen
as infib

Synonyms for spinach

adj emerald in color

Antonyms for spinach

green

adjective. emerald in color

Word Origin & History

c.1400, from Anglo-French spinache, Old French espinache (Modern French épinard), from Old Provençal espinarc, which perhaps is via Catalan espinac, from Andalusian Arabic isbinakh, from Arabic isbanakh, from Persian aspanakh "spinach." But OED is not convinced the Middle Eastern words are native, and based on the plethora of Romanic forms pronounces the origin "doubtful." Old folk etymology connected the word with Latin spina (see spine) or with Medieval Latin Hispanicum olus. For pronunciation, see cabbage. In 1930s colloquial American English, it had a sense of "nonsense, rubbish," based on a famous "New Yorker" cartoon of Dec. 8, 1928.

Example Sentences for spinach

Boiled and seasoned as spinach it makes equally good greens.

Boil the spinach as above, and drain and press it, but do not chop it.

Boil some carrots, cauliflower, spinach, and celery (all cut up) in water.

Observe that if you leave water in it, the spinach cannot ever be good.

The young tops when cooked are hard to distinguish from spinach.

Lake tried the edible herbs and found them to be something like spinach in taste.

He had always thought of spinach as spinach, chops as chops.

Spinach is a valuable food, not to be classed merely as a relish.

With a rowley, powley, gammon and spinach;Heigho, says Anthony Rowley.

The leaves, when young, can be used as spinach, but the seeds are the most sought after for food.

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