mountain spinach

noun

A plant in the amaranth family used as a leaf vegetable, Atriplex hortensis.

Similar
garden orachered orachFrench spinachorachearrachAtriplex hortensis

Meanings

nounmountain spinach (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA plant in the amaranth family used as a leaf vegetable, Atriplex hortensis.

    Synonyms: garden orache, red orach, French spinach, orache, arrach

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA plant in the amaranth family used as a leaf vegetable, Atriplex hortensis.

Similar
garden orachered orachFrench spinachorachearrach

More synonyms by meaning

nounAsiatic plant resembling spinach often used as a potherb; naturalized in Europe and North America

Similar
garden oracheAtriplex hortensis
Also see

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Catalan armoll
  • armollAtriplex hortensis
Finnish tarhamaltsa
  • tarhamaltsaAtriplex hortensis
Hungarian kerti laboda
  • kerti labodaAtriplex hortensis
Polish łoboda
  • łobodaAtriplex hortensis
Romanian lobodă
  • lobodăAtriplex hortensis
Swedish trädgårdsmålla
  • trädgårdsmållaAtriplex hortensis
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mountain spinach,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mountain%20spinach.

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