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Definition of Spinage

1. spinach [n -S] - See also: spinach

Medical Definition of Spinage

1. A common pot herb (Spinacia oleracea) belonging to the Goosefoot family. Mountain spinach. See Garden orache, under Orache. New Zealand spinach, a coarse herb (Tetragonia expansa), a poor substitute for spinach. Various other pot herbs are locally called spinach. Origin: OF. Espinache, espinoche, F. Epinard; cf. F. Spinace, Sp. Espinaca; all fr. Ar. Isfanaj, isfinaj, aspanakh, probably of Persian origin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spinage

Literary usage of Spinage

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1882)
"ЧГ Observe that in the sense of ' back-bone ' the word is Latin, spinach, spinage, a vegetable. (Ital. spikenard. (L. ; and F.-L.-Gk.- Pers. ..."

2. Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1884)
"An annual herb, extensively in use there as a cultivated spinage-plant. ... Admitted here as a savory and wholesome spinage-plant, which can be grown so ..."

3. Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1884)
"An annual herb, extensively in use there as a cultivated spinage-plant. ... Admitted here as a savory and wholesome spinage-plant, which can be grown so ..."

4. The Art of Preserving All Kinds of Animal and Vegetable Substances for by Nicholas Appert (1811)
"spinage and Succory. I dress spinage and succory as usual, ... Each bottle of a litre, contains two or three dishes either of spinage or succory according ..."

5. Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors by Walter Hamilton (1887)
"gammon and spinage— Heigh ho ! said Henry Colburn. On the road he spouted from Pope, He soon arrived at the Union Club, Heigh ho ! said Redding ; And he ..."

6. History of Cultivated Vegetables: Comprising Their Botanical, Medicinal by Henry Phillips (1822)
"This hardy annual plant was first cultivated in our gardens about the year 1568; as Turner says, in his Herbal, which was published in that year, " spinage, ..."

7. Works of the Camden Society by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) (1899)
"... Captain Malyn, Captain Barrington, Captain spinage, and Captain Leut. Hunter ; these are all Anabaptists. J. THURLOE. ..."

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