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.