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beet

[ beet ]

noun

  1. any of various biennial plants belonging to the genus Beta, of the amaranth family, especially B. vulgaris, having a fleshy red or white root. Compare sugar beet.
  2. the edible root of such a plant.
  3. the leaves of such a plant, served as a salad or cooked vegetable.


beet

/ biːt /

noun

  1. See chard
    any chenopodiaceous plant of the genus Beta , esp the Eurasian species B. vulgaris , widely cultivated in such varieties as the sugar beet, mangelwurzel, beetroot, and spinach beet See also chard
  2. the leaves of any of several varieties of this plant, which are cooked and eaten as a vegetable
  3. red beet
    red beet the US name for beetroot


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  • beetlike adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of beet1

First recorded before 1000; Middle English bete, Old English bēte, from Latin bēta

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Word History and Origins

Origin of beet1

Old English bēte , from Latin bēta

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Example Sentences

Allergies—Mix one part cucumber juice with one part beet root juice and three parts carrot juice.

Best line of the evening: “Cane sugar hides behind beet sugar.”

Roasted Beets with Walnuts I remember the first oven-roasted beet I ate.

Before, I had eaten only canned beets, and with oven-roasted beets a whole new beet world opened up to me.

When she stuttered her thanks, he turned beet red; he was more flustered than she by this unexpected intimacy.

If he prefer using mangold for beet, he is quite at liberty to do so, and I believe on sufficiently good authority.

Mangold is here, then, a generic term, standing for other plants equally with the beet.

The name of the field beet is, in the language of the unlearned, mangel-wurzel, "the root of poverty."

Beet, however, takes it in the technical sense: justification by faith is the preacher's sword and shield.

The sound was close by, and yet it did not come from the cabin boy, for he was all doubled up laughing, his face as red as a beet.

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