silverbeet
English
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editEtymology
editFrom silver + beet (from the colour of the leaf stalks).
Noun
editsilverbeet (plural silverbeets)
- (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.