Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun chard

2 senses of chard

Sense 1
chard, Swiss chard, spinach beet, leaf beet, chard plant, Beta vulgaris cicla -- (beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks)
       => beet, common beet, Beta vulgaris -- (biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop)

Sense 2
chard, Swiss chard, spinach beet, leaf beet -- (long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves)
       => greens, green, leafy vegetable -- (any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables)