Found 2 items, similar to Tetragonia expansa.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: Tetragonia expansa
Tetragonia expansa
n : coarse sprawling Australasian plant with red or yellow
flowers; cultivated for its edible young shoots and
succulent leaves [syn:
New Zealand spinach,
Tetragonia tetragonioides
]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Tetragonia expansa
Spinach
\Spin"ach\, Spinage
\Spin"age\, n. [OF. espinache,
espinoche, F. ['e]pinard; cf. F. spinace, Sp. espinaca; all
fr. Ar. isf[=a]n[=a]j, isfin[=a]j, aspan[=a]kh, probably of
Persian origin.] (Bot.)
A common pot herb (
Spinacia oleracea) belonging to the
Goosefoot family.
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Mountain spinach. See
Garden orache, under
Orache.
New Zealand spinach (Bot.), a coarse herb (
Tetragonia expansa
), a poor substitute for spinach.
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Note: Various other pot herbs are locally called spinach.
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