beet
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- noun
- /biːt/
- To make a healthy salad, you can add roasted beet slices along with greens and nuts.
- sugar beet
- beet root
- grow beets
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Watch on YouTubeBut it is a little sauce and there's beet and kind of pepper.
- But it is a little sauce and there's beet and kind of pepper.
- So one of these crops would be carrots, beets, and parsnips.
- Things like radishes, carrots, beets, they don't transplant well at all.
- We've got some carrots, beets and looks like some green onions.
- I must have ate some hot sauce or some beets or something.
- Because I'm pretty sure beets are either maroon or burgundy.
- It's found in table beets, both the greens and in the beet itself.
- They're simple things like eating beets, cayenne pepper, oregano, Rosemary.
- Vegetables like lettuce and celery and beets contain huge amounts of nitrates.
- They love beets down under and I don't and in New Zealand they love beets significantly.
Examples
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Can I interest you two in some delicious beets?
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I need some ginger root, fresh beets for my famous breakfast power juice.
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Everything seemed normal, except, of course, for the beet on the silver tray.
Fiction book (1990) -
Commercial sugar beets would be lucky to have even 10 or 20 percent.
Academic text (2000) -
It's found in table beets, both the greens and in the beet itself.
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Growers in 14 states produce America's sugar beet harvest, worth more than $1 billion annually.
Academic text (2000) -
At least the rain washed the beets, showing their scarlet under a lamppost.
Fiction book (1992) -
Now, with his violet hands, he scoops the beets off the counter and adds them to the broth.
Fiction book (1993) -
Dishes of pickled beets and corn relish sat here and there on the table.
Fiction book (1991) -
Things like radishes, carrots, beets, they don't transplant well at all.
Synonyms
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A round red root vegetable with dark red inside eaten cooked or raw
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A plant from Europe and Asia with a swollen edible root grown for food like beetroot and sugar beet
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A plant with a large root that people grow and eat
A round red root vegetable eaten cooked or raw
Compounds
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A vegetable with large green leaves and thick stalks that people grow for its edible stems and leaves
- US
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A strong plant from eastern and central North America that lives many years with palm-like leaves and blue flowers
- Specialized
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A caterpillar that eats the leaves of beets and other vegetables and damages crops
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word beet comes from an old Latin name beta that appears in many European languages. Think of beetroot — the name points to the red 'root' we eat, so beet means the round, usually red, edible root vegetable.