(n.) The tender leaves or leafstalks of the artichoke, white beet, etc., blanched for table use.
(n.) A variety of the white beet, which produces large, succulent leaves and leafstalks.
Example Sentences:
(1) The smoky density of the mackerel was nicely offset by the pointed black olive tapenade and the fresh, zingy flavours present in little tangles of tomato, shallot, red pepper and spring onion, a layer of pea shoots and red chard, and the generous dressing of grassy olive oil.
(2) Leaf growth will slow with encroaching cold and decreasing light, but chard will generally manage to keep producing some harvest when fresh greens are sparse.
(3) A statistically significant inverse relationship was found between the risk of skin cancer and a high intake of fish (p = 0.05); vegetables in general (p < 0.001); beans, lentils, or peas (p < 0.001), carrots, silverbeet (Swiss chard), or pumpkin (p < 0.001); cruciferous vegetables (cabbage, brussel sprouts, or broccoli) (p < 0.001); and beta-carotene- and vitamin C-containing foods (p = 0.004).
(4) That said, I would definitely ask my mother to cook it, and offer a little of my help, as stuffed chard takes forever to prepare.
(5) Quinoa is the grain-like seed of a plant in the goosefoot family (other members include spinach, chard, and the wonderful edible weed lambs quarters ), and its appeal is immense.
(6) Type I hypersensitivity to Swiss chard was demonstrated by means of immediate skin test reactivity, specific IgE determination by RAST, basophil degranulation, histamine release test, and an immediate bronchial provocation test response to Swiss chard extract.
(7) Control mice fed soil-grown chard showed significantly lower kidney and liver concentrations of cadmium, i.e.
(8) The ability of lettuce and chard extracts to reduce the mutagenic activity of Benzo[a]pyrene was studied.
(9) Those caught on camera include estate agents from high street chain Winkworth, central London specialist Marsh & Parsons which advertises itself under the slogan “The Only Way is Ethics”, Domus Nova, Chard, and Bective Leslie Marsh which have been used by fashion designers and actors.
(10) Keith Heddle, managing director of Stanley Gibbons Investments, says: “Luxury and collectible coins are much more enjoyable to own than a share certificate or a unit in some fund.” Numismatics is the official term for coin collecting, and Lawrence Chard, director of Blackpool-based dealer Chards, recommends buying coins in the highest grades or best condition you can afford.
(11) We therefore acted entirely appropriately and in accordance with AML regulations and our own internal procedures.” The Guardian contacted Chard but it did not reply.
(12) Another €20 will get you a plate of salumi di Parma (cured ham, cooked shoulder of pork, salame, pancetta, lardo…) followed by fresh tortelli (pasta stuffed with squash or chard) at Trattoria Corrieri or Osteria dello Zingaro .
(13) Control animals were fed Swiss chard grown on unfortified soi.
(14) Men in white rubber boots cut chard in a field belonging to the farm.
(15) Photograph: Getty Images Chard is a wonder vegetable in terms of its ease of growth and abundance through the year.
(16) Leaves of 10 plant species, 7 with photorespiration (spinach, sunflower, tobacco, pea, wheat, bean, and Swiss chard) and 3 without photorespiration (corn, sugarcane, and pigweed), were surveyed for peroxisomes.
(17) Cadmium was taken up by the swiss chard (8.15 ppm, dry wt).
(18) Try the quelites (cooked leafy greens), acelgas (Swiss chard) or coliflór (fried cauliflower.)
(19) Courgettes, potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, swiss chard, carrots and peppers need a 10-litre pot for a single plant (or maybe four carrots).
(20) Samples consisting of bulbs, and leaves and soft stalks (chard, parsley, spinach and lettuce) contained the highest levels of both metals.
Chary
Definition:
(a.) Careful; wary; cautious; not rash, reckless, or spendthrift; saving; frugal.
Example Sentences:
(1) 1894 : Area named Ubangi-Chari and set up as a dependency by the French 1910 : Integrated in the Federation of French Equatorial Africa 1958 : The territory gains self-government within French Equatorial Africa and Barthélemy Boganda becomes prime minister 1960 : David Dacko becomes president of now-independent Central African Republic (CAR) 1962 : President makes the country a one-party state.
(2) British leaders of the postwar and cold-war eras were chary of wars of intervention.
(3) The lake is fed by the Chari and Logone rivers, flowing into it from southwest.
(4) I had suggested doing an "at home" in Sussex, but he was chary about me describing the "soft furnishings, stuffed lions illegally shot, etc".
(5) Governments have been chary of the question of who pays, how much and when.
(6) These findings fully corroborate a prediction made by us on the basis of mechanistic and stereochemical analyses of CMLE and MLE [Chari, R. V. J., Whitman, C. P., Kozarich, J. W., Ngai, K.-L., & Ornston, L. N. (1987) J.
(7) The new species differs from M. charis in an oval shape and size of the body of females, large stylet of females and larvae, low place of the entry of the dorsal duct into the oesophagal lumen, long and slender tail of larvae.
(8) However, one should be chary of referring AEBP change of vascular origin to any particular section on the basis of these deductions alone.
(9) Electric organ discharges (EODs) of Gymnarchus niloticus in its natural habitat (Chari River, Chad Basin) and accompanying ecological data (pH, conductivity, temperature, turbidity, O2 dissolved) were recorded.
(10) Among a few others, studies carried out in India (K. R. Nair & Virmani, 1973 Indian Journal of Medical Research, 61, 9; P. Chary, 1986, In Language processing in bilinguals: Psycholinguistic and neuropsychological perspectives) have lent support to the notion of a higher incidence of crossed aphasia among bi- and multilinguals and form major citations in support of the hypothesis that bilingualism could lead to a greater bilateral cerebral representation of languages.
(11) 1.49pm BST Paolo Di Canio has now officially signed a brand-new team at Sunderland with the teenage Greek winger Charis Mavrias signing for £2.5m from Panathinaikos.
(12) The definitive chorioallantoic placental barrier in this bat thus differs from the organization earlier proposed by Chari and Gopalakrishna [Proc.
(13) An earlier cursory analysis of distinctive features in these data (Chari, N.C.A., Herman, G. and Danhauer, J.L.
(14) The authors report on an outbreak of Schistosoma mansoni infestation involving 113 military men who had been contaminated together in a tributary of the Chari river in the Central African Republic.
(15) In light of current discussions on multiple forms of inhibin, it was thought of interest to ascertain the identity of the postulated 'iso-hormones' of bull seminal plasma inhibin (Chari et al., 1978).
(16) An epidemic of human and animal anthrax raged in Chad mainly in the Department of Chari Baguirmi from September to December 1988, infesting more than 50% of donkeys and horses.
(17) The authors give on historical record of the focus of the sleeping disease in Moyen-Chari (South of Chad) from 1914 to 1989.
(18) Resisting the temptation to unleash Fletcher, Di Canio moved Sebastian Larsson and Charis Mavrias off the bench and into the equation and, almost imperceptibly, Sunderland regained a foothold in the tie.