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spinage (medicine)


spinage
<botany> A common pot herb (Spinacia oleracea) belonging to the Goosefoot family. Mountain spinach. See Garden orache, under Orache.

<botany> New Zealand spinach, a coarse herb (Tetragonia expansa), a poor substitute for spinach.

Various Other pot herbs are locally called spinach.

Origin: OF. Espinache, espinoche, F. Epinard; cf. F. Spinace, Sp. Espinaca; all fr. Ar. Isfanaj, isfinaj, aspanakh, probably of Persian origin.

Source: Websters Dictionary


modem (oh)



[Date: 1900-2000; Origin: modulator + demodulator]
a piece of electronic equipment that allows information from one computer to be sent along telephone wires to another computer