silver-beet

See also: silver beet and silverbeet

English

Noun

silver-beet (countable and uncountable, plural silver-beets)

  1. Alternative form of silverbeet.
    • 1914, The Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce, 1913, Wellington: […] John Mackay, […], →OCLC, page 55:
      Of other fodder crops the kales, cabbages, silver-beets, soya beans, and maizes have received attention.
    • 1942, Indian Forest Records (New Series): Entomology, volume VII, number 3, Delhi: Manager of Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 110:
      82. Laphygma exigua Hubner. Food-plants: Agathi, Amaranthus sp., ambadi, bersim, bhinda, Boerhaavia diffusa, brinjal, cabbage, Chenopodium album, chillies, cotton, cowpea, Dalbergia sissoo, Eruca sativa, Gisekia pharnaceoides, gram, groundnut, hollyhock, indigo, jute, khesari, linseed, lucerne, maize, mangel wurzel, mustards, oats, onion, peas, radish, Ricinus communis, safflower, sann hemp, senji, Sesamum, Sesbania aculeata, shaftal, sugar and silver-beets, tobacco, Trichosanthes dioica.
    • 1979, Thea Astley, Hunting the Wild Pineapple, Nelson, page 132:
      [H]e had, not long after their angry struggle, stationed her (with geographic cunning) to set out some silver-beet in a patch he had dug just below the window of the bigger shack.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.