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Definition of Spinacia
1. Noun. Spinach.
Generic synonyms: Caryophylloid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Chenopodiaceae, Family Chenopodiaceae, Goosefoot Family
Member holonyms: Prickly-seeded Spinach, Spinach, Spinach Plant, Spinacia Oleracea
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spinacia
Literary usage of Spinacia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"[WT] ', sola, inhabit salt-marshes in the northern part of Europe and Asia.
Some of them are used as potherbs, for instance, spinach, (spinacia ..."
2. History of Cultivated Vegetables: Comprising Their Botanical, Medicinal by Henry Phillips (1822)
"It has by the moderns been called spinacia, from its spinous seed, though there
is a species of it, which produces a smooth seed. The pronunciation of its ..."
3. A Practical Flora for Schools and Colleges by Oliver Rivington Willis (1894)
"spinacia, Tourn. (Spinach. Spinage.) Flowers dioecious; bract- lets; staminate
flowers with a 4-5-parted calyx, segments equal, stamens on the receptacle, ..."
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