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silver-beet

silver-beet is the alternative form of silverbeet.

Meaning of silverbeet

Noun

silverbeet (countable and uncountable, plural silverbeets)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) 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.2001 May 19, Robin Powell, “Lettuce begin”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, number 51,080, Sydney, N.S.W., →ISSN, →OCLC, section 6 (Metropolitan), page 8, column 6

Forms of silver-beet

pluralsilver-beets

Questions about silver-beet

What is silver-beet the alternative form of?
Silver-beet is the alternative form of silverbeet.

Words near silver-beet in the dictionary

  1. silver whiting
  2. silver Y
  3. silver Ys
  4. silver-backed fox
  5. silver-backed foxes
  6. silver-beet
  7. silver-beets
  8. silver-dun
  9. silver-duns
  10. silver-feast
  11. silver-feasts

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