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# spinach

«spinach» in Mova's school dictionary: **a dark green leafy vegetable that can be eaten raw in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (spinach, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

Spinach is a dark green leafy vegetable that can be eaten raw in salads or cooked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinach/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In food and health lessons, spinach is a healthy vegetable with vitamins (A, C, K), folate and iron. In cartoons, Popeye the Sailor eats a can of spinach to get super strong. Spinach shrinks a lot when cooked. Phrases: «baby spinach», «spinach leaves», «spinach and ricotta».

### examples

- Mum puts spinach in the pasta sauce. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinach/#x1)
- Popeye eats spinach to get strong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinach/#x2)
- A big pile of spinach shrinks to a small spoonful when you cook it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinach/#x3)
- We grew spinach in the school garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinach/#x4)
- Baby spinach is nice in a salad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinach/#x5)
- Spinach has lots of vitamins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinach/#x6)
- And certainly it was a cow, a fine red cow, fat and flourishing, and looking as if it had been fed all its days on spinach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinach/#x7)

### note

Uncountable: «some spinach», not «a spinach» or «spinaches». Say SPIN-itch. Myth: spinach is not unusually high in iron; an old story says a decimal-point mistake made people think so, but that story is itself doubtful. Also, the iron in spinach is not easy for the body to take in.

### In the corpora

- [Spinach contains iron, but the body absorbs it poorly, so spinach is not the iron superfood of cartoons.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/21-what-vitamins-do/10/)
- [The famous story that spinach's iron was overrated because of a misplaced decimal point is itself disputed and partly a myth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/1-what-really-happens-to-things-you-swallow/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «spinach» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spinach/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.