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silverbeet

noun

Etymology

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

  1. derived from bēta
  2. inherited from bēte
  3. inherited from bete
  4. compounded as silverbeet — “silver + beet”

Definitions

  1. The vegetable Beta vulgaris cicla

    The vegetable Beta vulgaris cicla; chard.

    • Not so useful in the salad bowl, silverbeet is great sauteed slowly in olive oil, or added to a parmesan-y frittata, or fried with anchovies, garlic and chilli and forked through hot spaghetti.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for silverbeet. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA