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yin choy

yin choy noun: a type of Chinese spinach with a purple center used in cooking, Amaranthus tricolor.

Noun

yin choy (uncountable)

  1. A type of Chinese spinach with a purple center used in cooking, Amaranthus tricolor.
    • He ran them down—aspargus, spinach, bok choy, Chinese broccoli—finally mentioning yin choy, a spinachlike leaf with a purple center called amaranth, or Chinese spinach.1997, Patricia Unterman, Food Lover's Guide to San Francisco, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 46

Origin of yin choy

Borrowed from Chinese 莧菜 /苋菜 (jin6 coi3).

Questions about yin choy

What does yin choy mean?
Yin choy means a type of Chinese spinach with a purple center used in cooking, Amaranthus tricolor.
What part of speech is yin choy?
Yin choy is a noun.

Words near yin choy in the dictionary

  1. Yimchungru
  2. Yimeng
  3. yimengite
  4. Yims
  5. yin
  6. yin choy
  7. Yin Chuan
  8. yin yang
  9. yin yeung
  10. Yin-ch'uan
  11. yin-yang

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