Swiss chard

Swiss chard
noun
1. beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks
• Hypernyms: ↑beet, ↑common beet, ↑Beta vulgaris
• Part Meronyms: ↑chard, ↑spinach beet, ↑leaf beet
2. long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves
• Syn: ↑chard, ↑spinach beet, ↑leaf beet
• Hypernyms: ↑greens, ↑green, ↑leafy vegetable
• Part Holonyms: ↑chard, ↑spinach beet, ↑leaf beet, ↑chard plant, ↑Beta vulgaris cicla

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noun
Usage: usually capitalized S

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chard.
[1825-35]

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Swiss chard see under ↑chard
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Main Entry: ↑Swiss

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Swiss chard UK US noun [uncountable]
a vegetable with large green leaves and thick stems
Thesaurus: vegetableshyponym types of vegetablehypernym

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Swiss chard,
any one of several varieties of beets whose leaves are often eaten as a vegetable; chard: »

For brilliant foliage no other vegetable quite equals the…Swiss chard (New York Times).

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n. see chard

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noun [noncount]
: ↑chard

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ˌSwiss ˈchard [Swiss chard] noun uncountable
= ↑chard

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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  • Swiss chard — Swiss′ chard n. pln chard • Etymology: 1825–35 …   From formal English to slang

  • Swiss chard — n. CHARD …   English World dictionary

  • Swiss chard — n [U] a vegetable with large green leaves …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • Swiss chard — noun uncount a vegetable with large green leaves and thick stems …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • Swiss chard — paprastasis runkelis statusas T sritis vardynas apibrėžtis Balandinių šeimos cukrinis, dekoratyvinis, daržovinis, maistinis, pašarinis, vaistinis kultūrinis augalas (Beta vulgaris). Iš jo gaminami maisto priedai (dažikliai). atitikmenys: lot.… …   Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)

  • Swiss chard — paprastojo runkelio tipinis porūšis statusas T sritis vardynas apibrėžtis Balandinių šeimos cukrinis, daržovinis, dekoratyvinis, pašarinis, vaistinis kultūrinis augalas (Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris), iš jo gaminami maisto priedai (dažai).… …   Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)

  • Swiss chard — lapinis runkelis statusas T sritis augalininkystė apibrėžtis Dvimetė balandinių (Chenopodiaceae) šeimos daržovė (Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris var. cicla). Dauginama sėklomis. Maistui (sriuboms, salotoms) vartojami lapai bei lapkočiai.… …   Žemės ūkio augalų selekcijos ir sėklininkystės terminų žodynas

  • Swiss chard — chard. [1825 35] * * * …   Universalium

  • Swiss chard — noun Date: 1832 a beet (Beta vulgaris cicla) having large leaves and succulent stalks often cooked as a vegetable called also chard …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • Swiss chard — noun Beta vulgaris var. cicla: an edible leafy vegetable. Syn: chard, mangold, silverbeet …   Wiktionary

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