spinacia oleracea

Questions about spinacia oleracea

What does spinacia oleracea mean?

spinacia oleracea means "southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves".

What is another word for spinacia oleracea?

Close synonyms include spinach, spinach plant, prickly-seeded spinach. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is spinacia oleracea a common word?

spinacia oleracea is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.