# chard

Pronunciation: US say "CHARD" /t͡ʃɑɹd/; UK say "CHAHD" /t͡ʃɑːd/

## Noun

1. A leaf vegetable, Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla, whose edible leaves have a mildly bitter flavor.
   - Simple: A green leafy vegetable with thick stems and a slightly bitter taste.
   - _Cooks often pair chard with olive oil and lemon to soften its bitterness._
   - _We harvested chard from the raised beds all through the summer._
2. Artichoke leaves and shoots that have been blanched so they can be eaten.
   - Simple: The pale, blanched leaves and shoots of the artichoke plant, eaten as a vegetable.
   - _Old kitchen gardens grew artichokes partly for the chard their blanched shoots provided._
   - _Once blanched, the chard from the artichoke beds was simmered until it was soft._

## Origin

From an earlier form "card" (reshaped after "chardoon", an obsolete form of "cardoon"), from Middle French "carde", from Latin "carduus" ("thistle"). It is a doublet of "cardoon".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/chard (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).