chard plant

1. 1.

   beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks

   SynonymschardSwiss chardspinach beetleaf beetBeta vulgaris cicla

   Broaderbeet

   Partschard

Questions about chard plant

What does chard plant mean?

chard plant means "beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks".

What is another word for chard plant?

Close synonyms include chard, Swiss chard, spinach beet, leaf beet, Beta vulgaris cicla. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chard plant a common word?

chard plant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.