Noun | 1. | ![]() 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. | ![]() 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 |