What is "spinach beet"

spinach beet \spinach beet\ n.

1. a beet lacking a swollen root; it is grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks.

   Syn: chard, Swiss chard, spinach beet, leaf beet, chard plant, Beta vulgaris cicla. [WordNet 1.5]

2. a plant with long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves.

   Syn: chard, Swiss chard, spinach beet, leaf beet.

1. n. beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks [syn: chard, Swiss chard, leaf beet, chard plant, Beta vulgaris cicla]

2. long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves [syn: chard, Swiss chard, leaf beet]