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- noun
- /tʃɑrd/
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- In northeast Texas in the spring, we mix turnip greens, chard, and polk salad together; very good.
- Swiss chard
What has more phosphorus than Swiss Chard, more vitamin A than kale, and more selenium than beet greens?
- What has more phosphorus than Swiss Chard, more vitamin A than kale, and more selenium than beet greens?
- Corn and beans and peas and carrots and lettuce and spinach and kale and Chard, radishes, what else?
- Let me do another question here from Michael and these beans and Swiss chards keeping me warm here.
- Okay, that's what core lights in Chinese medicine, a lot of cooked green leafy vegetables, kale, Chard.
Examples
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The recipe calls for sautéing chard leaves with garlic and olive oil.
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We grew a ton of kale and Swiss chard in our garden this year and froze it.
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Try some of the chard.
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And you also have the Swiss Chard that is absolutely massive.
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Can you get that Swiss chard for me?
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And a little green salad with some Swiss chard.
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Sometimes, it's so tempting to see a nice bunch of chard and think, "Oh, I'll definitely use that."
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If you plant rainbow chard, it's not only long-lasting and nutritious, it's also very pretty!
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The farm produces sunflowers, tomatoes, cucumbers, kohlrabi, Swiss chard, and peppers.
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Rosie was on her knees, pulling weeds from between the stake-and-string rows of newly sprouted chard.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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A leafy green vegetable with large leaves and thick colorful stalks
A leafy vegetable with edible stems and leaves, like Swiss chard
A vegetable with large green leaves and thick stalks that people grow for its edible stems and leaves
A leafy green vegetable with large edible leaves and thick stalks used like spinach
A leafy vegetable grown for its leaves and stalks instead of its root
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Chard comes from the old French word carde and the Latin carduus, which meant 'thistle'. So the name stayed from a time when people used it for thistle-like greens, and today chard means the leafy vegetable with big green leaves and thick stalks that we eat.