silverbeet

English

Alternative forms
  • silver-beet

Etymology

From silver +‎ beet (from the colour of the leaf stalks).

Noun

silverbeet (plural silverbeets)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) The vegetable Beta vulgaris cicla; chard. [from 19th c.]
    • 1979, Thea Astley, Hunting the Wild Pineapple, Nelson, page 132:
      [H]e had, not long after their angry struggle, stationed her (with geographic cunning) to set out some silver-beet in a patch he had dug just below the window of the bigger shack.
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