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spinach, annual plant (Spinacia oleracea) of the family Chenopodiaceae (goosefoot goosefoot, common name for the genus Chenopodium, as well as for the goosefoot family, Chenopodiaceae, a family of widely distributed shrubs and herbs that includes the beet, spinach, and mangel-wurzel.
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 family), probably of Persian origin and known to have been introduced into Europe in the 15th cent. It is valued as a vegetable for the high vitamin and iron content of its leaves, and numerous varieties of the species are cultivated. New Zealand spinach New Zealand spinach, succulent annual (Tetragonia expansa) of Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and S South America, grown for the edible leaves. The plant grows prostrate, often spreading to cover several feet. It is cooked like spinach.
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 belongs to the family Aizoaceae. Both families to which spinach plants belong are classified in the division Magnoliophyta Magnoliophyta , division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
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, class Magnoliopsida, order Caryophyllales.

spinach

Hardy, leafy annual (Spinacia oleracea) of the goosefoot family (Chenopodiaceae), used as a vegetable. The edible leaves, somewhat triangular and either flat or puckered, are arranged in a rosette, from which a seedstalk emerges. Spinach requires cool weather and deep, rich, well-limed soil to give quick growth and maximum leaf area; sowing seed every two weeks from early spring to late summer provides a steady supply. A nutritious vegetable, spinach is rich in iron and vitamins A and C.


spinach
a chenopodiaceous annual plant, Spinacia oleracea, cultivated for its dark green edible leaves

spinach [′spinĀ·ich]
(botany)
Spinacia oleracea.An annual potherb of Asiatic origin belonging to the order Caryophyllales and grown for its edible foliage.


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Foods contain rich Vitamin A and Zinc including spinaches, lettuces, apricots, mangos, soybeans, eggplants, lentils, cabbages, carrots, green onions, pumpkins, tomatoes, powder milks and so on.
Mchicha is one of the most popular spinaches and has small oval leaves and thin stems that are very good with Ugali.
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