wild spinach

Questions about wild spinach

What does wild spinach mean?

wild spinach means "European plant naturalized in North America; often collected from the wild as a potherb". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for wild spinach?

Close synonyms include good-king-henry, allgood, fat hen, Chenopodium bonus-henricus, lamb's-quarters. 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 wild spinach a common word?

wild spinach is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.