wild spinach

American  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

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

This did not appear appetizing, but again the men liked it, and when cooked up with wild spinach which grew about the lines it was considered very tasty.

From The Record of a Regiment of the Line Being a Regimental History of the 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment during the Boer War 1899-1902 by Jacson, Mainwaring George