beet
any of various biennial plants belonging to the genus Beta, of the amaranth family, especially B. vulgaris, having a fleshy red or white root.: Compare sugar beet.
the edible root of such a plant.
the leaves of such a plant, served as a salad or cooked vegetable.
Origin of beet
1Other words from beet
- beetlike, adjective
Words that may be confused with beet
- beat, beet
Words Nearby beet
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How to use beet in a sentence
A neuron looks kind of like a beet, with rich, dense, “roots” for input, a bulbous body, and a single output branch.
How Virtual Reality Unveiled a Unique Brain Wave That Could Boost Learning | Shelly Fan | July 6, 2021 | Singularity HubYou can substitute other vegetables for the classic cukes—cauliflower, peppers, beets, asparagus, and jalapeños work great—and tweak the spices and dill until you land on a ratio you love.
Closer to ideal is the not-too-sweet ricotta creme brulee, its crackling burnt-sugar surface dotted with beet gel and strewn with purple viola flowers.
If you think fine dining is on pause, Imperfecto would beg to differ | Tom Sietsema | May 7, 2021 | Washington PostYou can turn carrot tops into pesto, and beet and radish greens can be cooked just the way you would Swiss chard.
Cut waste and boost flavor with skin-to-seed recipes that use the whole vegetable | Joe Yonan | April 23, 2021 | Washington PostA relative of the beet, in species and slightly in flavor when raw, chard can be subbed in for almost any hardy, leafy-green vegetable.
Swiss chard’s versatility as a leafy green shines in these 4 recipes | Kari Sonde | February 18, 2021 | Washington Post
Allergies—Mix one part cucumber juice with one part beet root juice and three parts carrot juice.
Use These 15 Home Remedies Based On Ayurveda To Cure Menstrual Cramps, Hangovers, and Indigestion | Ari Meisel | January 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBest line of the evening: “Cane sugar hides behind beet sugar.”
Roasted Beets with Walnuts I remember the first oven-roasted beet I ate.
Before, I had eaten only canned beets, and with oven-roasted beets a whole new beet world opened up to me.
When she stuttered her thanks, he turned beet red; he was more flustered than she by this unexpected intimacy.
If he prefer using mangold for beet, he is quite at liberty to do so, and I believe on sufficiently good authority.
Mangold is here, then, a generic term, standing for other plants equally with the beet.
The name of the field beet is, in the language of the unlearned, mangel-wurzel, "the root of poverty."
beet, however, takes it in the technical sense: justification by faith is the preacher's sword and shield.
Expositor's Bible: The Second Epistle to the Corinthians | James DenneyThe sound was close by, and yet it did not come from the cabin boy, for he was all doubled up laughing, his face as red as a beet.
Beautiful Joe | Marshall Saunders
British Dictionary definitions for beet
/ (biːt) /
any chenopodiaceous plant of the genus Beta, esp the Eurasian species B. vulgaris, widely cultivated in such varieties as the sugar beet, mangelwurzel, beetroot, and spinach beet: See also chard
the leaves of any of several varieties of this plant, which are cooked and eaten as a vegetable
red beet the US name for beetroot
Origin of beet
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