Definition of Spinacia

1. Noun. Spinach.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Spinacia

Spielbergian
Spielmeyer
Spielmeyer-Sjogren disease
Spielmeyer-Stock disease
Spielmeyer-Vogt disease
Spiers
Spiffy
Spigelius
Spigelius' line
Spigelius' lobe
Spike
Spike Lee
Spillane
Spilogale
Spilogale putorius
Spinacia
Spinacia oleracea
Spinelli operation
Spinone Italiano
Spinoni Italiani
Spinosism
Spinoza
Spinozan
Spinozism
Spinozist
Spinozistic
Spinozists
Spinus
Spinus pinus
Spinus tristis

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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