: a biennial garden plant (Beta vulgaris) of the goosefoot family that includes several cultivars (such as Swiss chard and sugar beet) and that has thick edible leaves with long petioles and often swollen purplish-red roots
also
: its root used especially as a vegetable, as a source of sugar, or for forage
Examples of beet in a Sentence
I've planted carrots, parsnips, and beets in the garden.
Recent Examples on the Web
There's bite-sized chicken pies with incredible flavor, a hearty beet salad and soup dumplings that might just be better than takeout.
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Sonal Dutt, Peoplemag, 5 June 2024
Beet, Blackberry Buckwheat Salad A gorgeous dish for a summer table—the nutty flavors of the buckwheat paired with the crunch of the hazelnuts give the salad an extra punch alongside the creamy labneh and roasted beets.
2 of 3Excerpted from ‘The Side Gardener’ by Rosie Daykin.
—Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 23 May 2024
Most beets are genetically modified to tolerate the weed-killing herbicide glyphosate and may be contaminated with this toxin.
—Ascend Agency, Baltimore Sun, 1 Mar. 2024
And the kitchen turns out food — beet salad, calamari and pesto pasta, as well as burgers and fish and chips — that’s a cut above the usual pub fare.
—Jay R. Brooks, The Mercury News, 21 May 2024
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Sonal Dutt, Peoplemag, 5 June 2024
Beet, Blackberry Buckwheat Salad A gorgeous dish for a summer table—the nutty flavors of the buckwheat paired with the crunch of the hazelnuts give the salad an extra punch alongside the creamy labneh and roasted beets.
2 of 3Excerpted from ‘The Side Gardener’ by Rosie Daykin.
—Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 23 May 2024
Most beets are genetically modified to tolerate the weed-killing herbicide glyphosate and may be contaminated with this toxin.
—Ascend Agency, Baltimore Sun, 1 Mar. 2024
And the kitchen turns out food — beet salad, calamari and pesto pasta, as well as burgers and fish and chips — that’s a cut above the usual pub fare.
—Jay R. Brooks, The Mercury News, 21 May 2024
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“Beet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beet. Accessed 9 Jun. 2024.
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beet
noun
: a garden plant with thick long-stalked edible leaves and usually an enlarged purplish red root used as a vegetable, as a source of sugar, or as food for livestock
also
: this root
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