Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun spinach

2 senses of spinach

Sense 1
spinach, spinach plant, prickly-seeded spinach, Spinacia oleracea -- (southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves)
       => 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)

Sense 2
spinach -- (dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads)
       => greens, green, leafy vegetable -- (any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables)