beet
/bi:t/
Definition
- Noun:
- A plant with a swollen edible root: A biennial Eurasian plant (Beta vulgaris) widely cultivated for its edible root, which is typically dark red, though varieties can be white or yellow.
- The edible root of this plant: A round or oblong root vegetable, often with dark red flesh, used as food, for producing sugar, or as animal fodder.
Examples of Usage
- Noun:
- We harvested beets from the garden to make a salad.
- Sugar is often produced from a specific type of white beet.
- The recipe calls for one large beet, peeled and grated.
Advanced Usage
- "beet red": A deep, purplish-red color, like that of a common beetroot. Often used to describe someone's face flushed with embarrassment or exertion.
- After running, his face was beet red.
Variants and Related Words
- Beetroot (n): Primarily British English term for the dark red root of the beet plant, especially when cooked and eaten as a vegetable.
- She added sliced beetroot to the sandwich.
- Sugar beet (n): A variety of beet with a high sugar content in its root, cultivated commercially for sugar production.
- Beet greens (n phrase): The edible leafy green tops of the beet plant.
Synonyms
- Beetroot (especially in British English)
- Red root (informal, context-specific)
Related Phrases
- "Red as a beet": An idiom describing intense redness, typically in a person's face.
- When they teased him, he turned red as a beet.
Noun
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round red root vegetable
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biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop
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