: 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
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I've planted carrots, parsnips, and beets in the garden.
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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.
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Jay R. Brooks, The Mercury News, 21 May 2024
Palizzi grows sweet corn, tomatoes, peppers, chili peppers, okra, beets, onions and cucumbers at the farm on East Bromley Lane, which has been in business since 1929.
—John Aguilar, The Denver Post, 14 May 2024
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Jay R. Brooks, The Mercury News, 21 May 2024
Palizzi grows sweet corn, tomatoes, peppers, chili peppers, okra, beets, onions and cucumbers at the farm on East Bromley Lane, which has been in business since 1929.
—John Aguilar, The Denver Post, 14 May 2024
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“Beet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beet. Accessed 28 May. 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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