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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 bath
  2. silver baths
  3. silver beachweed
  4. silver beech
  5. silver beer
  6. silver beet
  7. silver beets
  8. silver berries
  9. silver berry
  10. silver birch
  11. silver birches

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