beet green
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3.5
- noun
- /bit ɡrin/
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- (and I even had the kidney stones from eating too many beet greens and damn Swiss chard!)
- beet greens salad
- a bunch of beet greens
- baby beet greens
If you've ever had beet greens before, beet greens are just the smaller cousin to Swiss Chard.
- If you've ever had beet greens before, beet greens are just the smaller cousin to Swiss Chard.
- What has more phosphorus than Swiss Chard, more vitamin A than kale, and more selenium than beet greens?
Examples
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So we'll have tall Swiss Chard and then the beet greens will fill in kind of right below the Chard.
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We will sample mustard greens, arugula, chard, beet greens.
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My mom used to fix beet greens.
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Beet greens
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"Dear," the old woman said, "it all depends on whether they have rigged scales or little beets." "Do we get beet greens, too?" Polina asked.
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If you've ever had beet greens before, beet greens are just the smaller cousin to Swiss Chard.
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Saturday was homemade beet and potato gnocchi with fresh beet greens, arugula, and shaved Parmigiano Reggiano cheese.
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You are instructed to cut out all dark leafy greens from your diet, including kale, beet greens, spinach, and Swiss chard, and eat a ton of low-fat dairy.
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My mother used to make a wonderful salad out of beet greens and pecans with a honey Dijon dressing.
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Cut off the beet greens and reserve them for ravioli filling or soup.
Synonyms
A leafy vegetable grown for its leaves and stalks instead of its root
A vegetable with large green leaves and thick stalks that people grow for its edible stems and leaves
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the edible young leaves of the beetroot plant' is directly compositional from 'beet' (the beetroot plant) + 'green' (leafy vegetable), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer it. This noun+noun compound follows a common English pattern (and has clear parallels in other languages), making the phrase immediately understandable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Beet green is a simple name for the leafy part of the beet plant. It is literally the beet plant's greens, the leaves people cook or eat, so it means 'the edible young leaves of the beetroot plant'.