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wild spinach

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noun

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

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Wild spinach, mowa, was still present although sparse, and several varieties of wild beans had escaped foraging baboons.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

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