silver-beet

plural silver-beets

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of silverbeet.

   Of other fodder crops the kales, cabbages, silver-beets, soya beans, and maizes have received attention.

   1914, The Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce, 1913, Wellington: […] John Mackay, […], →OCLC, page 55

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   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.

   1942, Indian Forest Records (New Series): Entomology, volume VII, number 3, Delhi: Manager of Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 110

   [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.

   1979, Thea Astley, Hunting the Wild Pineapple, Nelson, page 132