New Zealand spinach

noun

A plant whose leaves are used as spinach-like greens, Tetragonia tetragonioides

Similar
Tetragonia tetragonioidesTetragonia expansa
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounNew Zealand spinach (countable and uncountable, plural New Zealand spinaches)

plural New Zealand spinaches

  1. countableuncountableA plant whose leaves are used as spinach-like greens, Tetragonia tetragonioides

Synonyms & antonyms

nouncoarse sprawling Australasian plant with red or yellow flowers; cultivated for its edible young shoots and succulent leaves

Similar
Tetragonia tetragonioidesTetragonia expansa
Broader
herbherbaceous plant
Also see
botany bay greens

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Catalan espinac de Nova Zelanda
  • espinac de Nova ZelandaPlant
Chinese Mandarin 番杏
  • 番杏 (fānxìng)Plant
Estonian Uus-Meremaa spinat
  • Uus-Meremaa spinatPlant
Finnish uudenseelanninpinaatti, lamopinaatti
  • uudenseelanninpinaattiPlant
  • lamopinaattiPlant
Italian tetragonia
  • tetragoniaPlant
Japanese 蔓菜
  • 蔓菜 (tsuruna)Plant
Swedish nyzeeländsk spenat
  • nyzeeländsk spenatPlant
Cite this entry
APA

New Zealand spinach. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/New%20Zealand%20spinach

MLA

“New Zealand spinach.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/New%20Zealand%20spinach. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “New Zealand spinach,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/New%20Zealand%20spinach.

Source: New Zealand spinach on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.