Beetroot vs. Beet

Beetrootnoun

A normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable usually cooked or pickled before eating; lang=en.

Beetrootnoun

The edible part of the root of a beet plant, raw or prepared.

Beetrootverb

To turn a bright red or purple colour.

Beetrootnoun

beet having a massively swollen red root; widely grown for human consumption

Beetrootnoun

round red root vegetable

Beetrootnoun

the edible dark red spherical root of a kind of beet, eaten as a vegetable.

Beetrootnoun

the variety of beet which produces beetroots.

Beetroot

The beetroot is the taproot portion of a beet plant, usually known in Canada and the USA as beets while the vegetable is referred to as beetroot in British English, and also known as the table beet, garden beet, red beet, dinner beet or golden beet. It is one of several cultivated varieties of Beta vulgaris grown for their edible taproots and leaves (called beet greens); they have been classified as B. vulgaris subsp.

Beetnoun

Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.

Beetnoun

A beetroot, a swollen root of such a plant.

Beetnoun

A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year.

Beetnoun

The root of plants of the genus Beta, different species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making sugar.

Beetnoun

biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop

Beetnoun

round red root vegetable