leaf beet

Questions about leaf beet

What does leaf beet mean?

leaf beet means "beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for leaf beet?

Close synonyms include chard, Swiss chard, spinach beet, chard plant, 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 leaf beet a common word?

leaf beet is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.