beet

Definitions of beet
  1. noun
    a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person
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    types:
    hondebeet
    a bite inflicted by a dog
    slangebeet, slangenbeet
    a bite inflicted by a (venomous) snake
    type of:
    wond, wonde
    an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
  2. noun
    round red root vegetable
    synonyms: biet, bietekroot, bietenkroot, kroot
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    beetwortel, suikerbiet
    white-rooted beet grown as a source of sugar
    koepeen, mangel, mangelwortel, voederbiet, voerbiet
    cultivated as feed for livestock
    type of:
    wortelgewas
    any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers
  3. noun
    biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop
    synonyms: biet
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    bietekroot, bietenkroot, kroot
    beet having a massively swollen red root; widely grown for human consumption
    snijbiet
    beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks
    koepeen, mangel, mangelwortel, voederbiet, voerbiet
    beet with a large yellowish root; grown chiefly as cattle feed
    beetwortel, suikerbiet
    form of the common beet having a sweet white root from which sugar is obtained
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