wild spinach
Americannoun
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Among rows of wild spinach and sweet potatoes is a butchery that sells fresh offal and fish.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 23, 2019
The stylish Barbarossa serves delicious seafood and traditional dishes, like wild spinach sautéed with foraged herbs.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2019
We were so broke that for weeks we ate nothing but bowls of marogo, a kind of wild spinach, cooked with caterpillars.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
The banks are well lined with box timber, as well as with marshmallows and wild spinach: the land on either side consists of well-grassed sandy rises.
From Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia by Wills, William John
There are several varieties of wild spinach, and a plant that makes a good salad, known by the Arabs as 'Regly;' also wild onions as large as a man's fist, but uneatable.
From The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia, and the sword hunters of the Hamran arabs by Baker, Samuel White, Sir
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