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wild spinach

American  

noun

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


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Among rows of wild spinach and sweet potatoes is a butchery that sells fresh offal and fish.

From The Guardian

The stylish Barbarossa serves delicious seafood and traditional dishes, like wild spinach sautéed with foraged herbs.

From Washington Post

We were so broke that for weeks we ate nothing but bowls of marogo, a kind of wild spinach, cooked with caterpillars.

From Literature

One month, he says, money was so short that they were forced to subsist on bowls of wild spinach, cooked with mopane worms, “the cheapest thing that only the poorest of poor people eat.”

From New York Times

On route from church one Sunday, he spotted a small wild spinach plant and transplanted it in his backyard.

From Washington Times