beet
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- noun
- /biːt/
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- To make a healthy salad, you can add roasted beet slices along with greens and nuts.
- sugar beet
- beet root
- grow beets
But 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
A plant with a large root that people grow and eat
A round red root vegetable eaten cooked or raw
A plant from Europe and Asia with a swollen edible root grown for food like beetroot and sugar beet
Compounds
- Specialized
A caterpillar that eats the leaves of beets and other vegetables and damages crops
A vegetable with large green leaves and thick stalks that people grow for its edible stems and leaves
- US
A strong plant from eastern and central North America that lives many years with palm-like leaves and blue flowers
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.