beetroot

beet·root (b

, -r

)

n. Chiefly British

The edible root of the beet.

beetroot [ˈbiːtˌruːt]

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

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Noun	1.	beetroot - beet having a massively swollen red root; widely grown for human consumption Beta vulgaris rubra 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 beet 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 n → sucre m de betterave

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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beet beet green beetroot purple Beta vulgaris Beta vulgaris rubra betacyanin blush Blushes borscht burn colour common beet flush Green greens leafy vegetable mangel-wurzel red redden	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. Emma by Austen, Jane View in context 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. The Poison Belt by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context	beet beet armyworm beet blight beet green beet leafhopper Beet radish beet sugar Beete beetfly Beethoven Beethovenian beetle beetle along Beetle brow beetle drive Beetle mite beetle off beetle-browed Beetle-headed Beetlehead Beetlestock beetleweed beetling Beeton Beetrave beetroot beetroot purple Beeve beeves beezer BEF bef. befall befit befitting Befittingly Beflatter Beflower befog befogged befool befooling before before Christ before long Before the beam Before the footlights Before the mast Before the wind before-flight servicing before-tax	Beetle drive Beetle mite Beetle nut Beetle nut beetle off beetle stone Beetle Team Sarine beetle, Colorado beetle, Colorado beetle-browed beetle-browed Beetle-headed beetled beetled Beetlehead beetles beetles beetles Beetles Bugs and Butterflies Beetlestock beetleweed beetling beetling Beeton Beeton Beeton, Mrs Isabella Mary Beeton, Mrs Isabella Mary Beetoven Beetoven Beetrave beetroot beetroot purple Beetroot Red beetroots beetroots beetroots Beets Beets Beets Beets, Nicolaas BEEV beevbilde Beeve beeves beeves beeves beeves Beeville Beeville, Texas Beevor's sign Beevor's sign Beevor's sign Beevor's sign BEEWBC BEEWC Beeweed Beeweed Beewort Beewort Beewort Beezelbub

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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.

Emma by Austen, Jane View in context

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.

The Poison Belt by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context

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