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SPINACIA OLERACEA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves
Synonyms:
prickly-seeded spinach; spinach; spinach plant; Spinacia oleracea
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Spinacia oleracea" is a kind of...):
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)
Meronyms (parts of "Spinacia oleracea"):
spinach (dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads)
Holonyms ("Spinacia oleracea" is a member of...):
genus Spinacia; Spinacia (spinach)
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