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beetroot

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beet·root  (btrt, -rt)
n. Chiefly British
The edible root of the beet.

beetroot [ˈbiːtˌruːt]
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a variety of the beet plant, Beta vulgaris, that has a bulbous dark red root that may be eaten as a vegetable, in salads, or pickled
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) the root of this plant US name red beet
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.beetrootbeetroot - beet having a massively swollen red root; widely grown for human consumption
beet, beetroot - round red root vegetable
beet green - young leaves of the beetroot
beet, Beta vulgaris, common beet - biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop
2.beetroot - round red root vegetable
root vegetable - any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers
sugar beet - white-rooted beet grown as a source of sugar
mangel-wurzel - cultivated as feed for livestock
beetroot, Beta vulgaris rubra - beet having a massively swollen red root; widely grown for human consumption
Translations
beetroot [ˈbiːtruːt] N (Brit) → remolacha f, betabel m (Mex), betarraga f (Chile, Bol)

beetroot [ˈbiːtruːt] n (British)betterave f
beet sugar nsucre m de betterave

beetroot [ˈbiːtˌruːt] n (Brit) → barbabietola
beetroot [ˈbiːtˌruːt] n (Brit) → barbabietola

beetroot بنجر červená řepa rødbede Rote Beete παντζάρι remolacha punajuuri betterave cikla barbabietola rossa ビートルート 비트 뿌리 rode biet rødbete burak (ćwikłowy) beterraba свекла rödbeta หัวบีตรูต pancar củ cải đường 甜菜根


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Elton was still talking, still engaged in some interesting detail; and Emma experienced some disappointment when she found that he was only giving his fair companion an account of the yesterday's party at his friend Cole's, and that she was come in herself for the Stilton cheese, the north Wiltshire, the butter, the cellery, the beetroot, and all the dessert.
he gasped, with a face of beetroot, while Lord John and I smiled in sympathy and Summerlee, like a dyspeptic goat, wagged his head in sardonic disagreement.
 
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