beet


Definition: Meaning of, beet in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / biːt /

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beet beets
[uncountable and countable]
  1. also sugar beet a vegetable that sugar is made from
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  2. American English a plant with a round dark red root that you cook and eat as a vegetable [=  beetroot British English]
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  3. red as a beet American English informal having a red face, especially because you are embarrassed
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beet used in phrases

  • Indian beet (noun)
    1. stout perennial of eastern and central North America having palmate leaves and showy racemose blue flowers
  • beet armyworm (noun)
    1. moth larva that eats foliage of beets and other vegetables
  • beet blight (noun)
    1. a disease of beet plants
  • beet green (noun)
    1. young leaves of the beetroot
  • beet sugar (noun)
    1. sugar made from sugar beets
    2. sugar from sugar beets used as sweetening agent
  • common beet (noun)
    1. biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop
  • leaf beet (noun)
    1. beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks
    2. long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves
  • spinach beet (noun)
    1. beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks
    2. long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves
  • sugar beet (noun)
    1. a vegetable that grows under the ground from which sugar is obtained
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