wild spinach

noun

1. leafy greens collected from the wild and used as a substitute for spinach

• Hypernyms: ↑greens, ↑green, ↑leafy vegetable

• Part Holonyms:

↑lamb's-quarters, ↑pigweed, ↑Chenopodium album, ↑good-king-henry, ↑allgood, ↑fat hen, ↑Chenopodium bonus-henricus

2. leaves collected from the wild

• Syn: ↑lamb's-quarter, ↑pigweed

• Hypernyms: ↑greens, ↑green, ↑leafy vegetable

• Part Holonyms: ↑lamb's-quarters, ↑pigweed, ↑Chenopodium album

3. common weedy European plant introduced into North America; often used as a potherb

• Syn: ↑lamb's-quarters, ↑pigweed, ↑Chenopodium album

• Hypernyms: ↑goosefoot

• Part Meronyms: ↑lamb's-quarter, ↑pigweed

4. European plant naturalized in North America; often collected from the wild as a potherb

• Syn: ↑good-king-henry, ↑allgood, ↑fat hen, ↑Chenopodium bonus-henricus

• Hypernyms: ↑goosefoot

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noun

: any of several plants of the genus Chenopodium (as C. album and C. bonus-henricus) sometimes used as substitutes for spinach

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any of various plants of the genus Chenopodium, sometimes used in place of spinach.

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wild spinach,

any one of several plants occasionally used as a spinach substitute.