spinach | meaning of spinach in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English | LDOCE

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishPlants, Foodspinachspin‧ach /ˈspɪnɪdʒ, -ɪtʃ/ noun [uncountable]     HBPDFa vegetable with large dark green leavesExamples from the Corpusspinach• Seeds you can start indoors now include lettuce and spinach.• Then there is the heirloom tomato salad with baby spinach, a little white balsamic vinegar and feta cheese.• Try tuna, sardines or anchovies, or chopped spinach with plenty of garlic and black pepper.• An evening meal began promisingly with a bruschetta topped with chopped spinach, sun-dried tomatoes, pesto and feta cheese.• Every other layer is spinach noodles, and the secret ingredient is the fifth cheese.• So expect to feel like Popeye on spinach.• Above: fillet of turbot on spinach with chive and spiced sauces.• She no longer linked the flight with her own act of disobedience over the spinach, ably abetted by Aunt Tossie.Origin spinach (1300-1400) Old French espinache, from Arabic isfanakh, from Persian