SPINACH
ADJECTIVES
► SPINACEOUS belonging to the spinach family → 1822
► SPINACHY suggestive of spinach → 1950
NOUNS
► ALFALFA dried spinach or other dehydrated vegetables → 1913 sl.
► BITTER GREENS salad greens of any variety with a bitter taste, as spinach, chicory, etc. → 1880 chiefly US
► BLITE garden spinach → 1420
► SEAWEED spinach → 1932 US military usage
► WOOLWICH AND GREENWICH spinach → 1972 Brit. rhyming sl.
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