beet

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a plant, Beta vulgaris, grown for its edible leaves or swollen root and in some varieties for sugar

   The farmer planted beet for both its leaves and its sugar-rich roots.

2. 2
   noun

   the usually red or purple swollen root of this plant, eaten as a vegetable; beetroot

   She roasted the beet until it became tender and sweet.

From Middle English bete and Old English bete, borrowed from Latin beta, 'beet,' perhaps from an earlier Celtic source. Chard, beetroot, mangelwurzel, and sugar beet are cultivated forms or close varieties of the same species.

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