Lexic.us

Definition of Leaf beet

1. Noun. Beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks.

2. Noun. Long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Leaf Beet

leaf-nosed leaf-nosed bat leaf-nosed snake leaf-peeper leaf-peepers leaf-raking leaf-roller leaf-rolling leaf-scale leaf-silver

leaf-spot leaf-spring leaf-storm leaf-warbler leaf-worm leaf beet (current term) leaf beetle leaf beetles leaf blade leaf blight

leaf blower leaf blowers leaf bud leaf bug leaf cacti leaf cactus leaf cast leaf casting leaf curl leaf cutter

Literary usage of Leaf beet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Horticulturist; Or, An Attempt to Teach the Science and Practice of the by John Claudius Loudon, Loudon (Jane) (1849)
"Culture of both the leaf beet and the chard bett as in the red beet (1436); and a single plant will produce abundance of seed, which will keep ..."

2. The Suburban Horticulturist, Or, An Attempt to Teach the Science and by John Claudius Loudon (1842)
"The spinach beet, leaf beet, or white beet, Beta cicla L. ... Culture of both the leaf beet and the chard beet as in the red beet (1405) ; and a single ..."

3. Putnam's Vegetable Book by Mae Savell Croy (1917)
"There are four distinct types of beets: The ordinary garden beet; the leaf beet, or Swiss chard; the sugar beet; and the mangel, or stock beet. ..."

4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"... and midrib are very broad and thick, is a form of this, although the name is sometimes used as synonymous with the general edible leaf-beet group. (Fig. ..."

5. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"... (2) leaf beet(.B. Ocia), comprising the various kinds of Chard or Spinach Beet (see Chard); (3) the common garden Beets, or Beetroot. ..."

6. How to Grow Vegetables and Garden Herbs: A Practical Handbook and Planting by Allen French (1907)
"... variously known in its varieties as Swiss Chard, Silver Beet, leaf beet, Kale or Sea-kale Beet, Swiss Beet, Spinach Beet, and Asparagus Beet, ..."

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