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Answer for the clue "Long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves ", 5 letters:
chard

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Artichoke leaves and shoots, blanched to eat. 2 (context uncountable English) An edible leafy vegetable, (taxlink Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla subspecies noshow=1), with a slightly bitter taste

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks [syn: Swiss chard , spinach beet , leaf beet , chard plant , Beta vulgaris cicla ] long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves [syn: Swiss chard , spinach beet ...

Usage examples of chard.

Everything he was told fascinated Wellearn, and above all he was seized by the tales of the New Star which Chard and Shash and Embery recounted.

They had journeyed with her back down out of the Ravenshorn, skirted the mountains south along the barren stretches of Olden Moor, crossed again over Toffer Ridge into the forests of Darklin Reach and the valley of Hearthstone, then followed the winding channel of the Chard Rush west until they had reached the little glen where Allanon had fought his final battle.

Chard murmured, looking smugger than an astronomer of his age and distinction had any right to.

Burly, yet as tall as his compatriots, Burney expanded to full height as Chard lowered.

Assuming they accept our offer, thenif the winters at Ushere do become intolerable, as we may apparently fear according to what Chard has saidtheir people can remove hither and settle around the bay where their briq first made landfall.

At Hearthome I must study the globe that Chard offered to explain to me, because watching the sky.

Teeth and the Charnals, the Mermidon and the Chard Rush, even the sweep of the Streleheim and the dismal emptiness of the Malg.

From it he could emerge to grant interviews, with ranks of swiss chard as a reassuring backdrop.

McAllen was afraid of the Tube, and in the forefront of his reflections must be the inescapable fact that the secret of the McAllen Tube could no longer be kept without Barney Chards co-operation.

And the old man hadnt really been fooled by Barney Chards smooth approach.

Many of us feelI dothat its still preferable to the degree of brain-washing required to produce significant alterations in a personality type of Chards class.

McAllens experiment, it will be our disagreeable duty to act as Chards executioners.

In any event, Chards information was that an important five-year-plan of the association made it necessary to restrict him for that length of time.