prickly-seeded spinach

prickly-seeded spinach
noun
southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves
Hypernyms: ↑vegetable
Member Holonyms: ↑Spinacia, ↑genus Spinacia
Part Meronyms: ↑spinach

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: spinach 1 — compare round-seeded spinach

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