Noun: leaf beet
- Beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks
"The Swiss leaf beet's rainbow-coloured stems brightened up the vegetable bed";
- chard, Swiss chard, spinach beet, chard plant, Beta vulgaris cicla, perpetual spinach
- Long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves
"She added Swiss leaf beet to the vegetable soup";
- chard, Swiss chard, spinach beet, perpetual spinach
Derived forms: leaf beets
Type of: beet, Beta vulgaris, common beet, green, greens, leafy vegetable
Encyclopedia: Leaf beet