beet

DEFINITIONS OF: beet

Types:: show 4 types...; hide 4 types...; Beta vulgaris rubra, beetroot
beet having a massively swollen red root; widely grown for human consumption; Beta vulgaris cicla, Swiss chard, chard, chard plant, leaf beet, spinach beet
beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks; Beta vulgaris vulgaris, mangel-wurzel, mangold, mangold-wurzel
beet with a large yellowish root; grown chiefly as cattle feed; sugar beet
form of the common beet having a sweet white root from which sugar is obtained

Type of:: vegetable
any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower

Types:: sugar beet
white-rooted beet grown as a source of sugar; mangel-wurzel
cultivated as feed for livestock

Type of:: root vegetable
any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers

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