CHARD
What does "CHARD" mean?
A leafy green vegetable with large crinkled leaves and thick, often colorful stalks.
Meanings
- A leafy vegetable in the beet family, grown for its broad leaves and edible stalks. She sauteed the chard with garlic and a squeeze of lemon.
Did you know?
- Chard is a beet that never grew a root: it and the common garden beet are the same species, Beta vulgaris, simply bred in opposite directions - one for its leaves and stalks, the other for its bulb.
Word origin
From French 'carde' ('cardoon, edible thistle stalk'), from Latin 'carduus' ('thistle'); the name originally referred to the plant's fleshy stalks.
Remember it
CHARD is 'hard' with a CH - picture the firm, crunchy stalk you have to cook to soften.
A little poem
Ruby stalks, green sails-
the garden's loudest color
ends quiet in the pan.
haiku
Wordplay
- I asked the gardener which greens were toughest. He said the chard ones.
What it teaches
Two seeds of the same stock can grow entirely different fruits - direction matters more than origin.
Quick facts
What does CHARD mean?
A leafy green vegetable with large crinkled leaves and thick, often colorful stalks.
Is CHARD a valid word?
Yes — CHARD is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is CHARD?
CHARD has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does CHARD come from?
From French 'carde' ('cardoon, edible thistle stalk'), from Latin 'carduus' ('thistle'); the name originally referred to the plant's fleshy stalks.
What can CHARD teach us?
Two seeds of the same stock can grow entirely different fruits - direction matters more than origin.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.