beet armyworm

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.

The 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.