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| beet [ beet ] (plural beets) |
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1. plant with swollen root: a plant with a large swollen root. Use: as a vegetable, as animal feed, for sugar production. Genus Beta.
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2. plants beet plant with edible root: a variety of beet plant with a round dark-red edible root. Latin name Beta vulgaris.
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3. food beet plant root as vegetable: the red-colored root of a variety of beet plant, eaten as a vegetable
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| [ Old English bēte< Latin beta] |
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