Spinach is a dark green leaf that shrinks to nothing when cooked. Wilted spinach, a bag of spinach, spinach and ricotta.
It is mostly water, so a huge pan reduces to a spoonful. The story that it is exceptionally high in iron came from a decimal point misplaced in the nineteenth century — the iron is ordinary, and oxalates block much of it anyway.
1nounspinachA dark green leaf vegetable.
“Add a handful of fresh spinach to the pasta at the end.”
spinach is a vegetable.
Through Old French and Arabic isfanakh from Persian, the plant's name along its route west.
From spinach, from spinache, from espinoche, from espinarc, from إِسْفَانَاخ, from fa-cls.
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