beet
verbEtymology From Middle English beten, from Old English bētan.
beet
noun/biːt/
Etymology From Middle English bete, from Old English bēte, from Latin bēta, possibly of Celtic origin.
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Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.
- The beet is a hardy species.
- In general, beets, carrots, and turnips are all of aphrodisiac value in erotic dietary.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 42:
- In the past several years, Moonbelly and Faria, two bakeries whose flaky croissants and elegant loaves rival those at Du Pain et des Idées in Paris, have opened, with rotating offerings of buckwheat coffee cake, roasted bok choy-milk bread buns and focaccia sandwiches stuffed with beet and feta sold under the moniker “girl dinner.”2023 December 5, Ella Quittner, “How WFH Helped Make Sacramento a Great Restaurant City”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2023:
- Derived terms
34 terms
becurtovirus, beet armyworm, beetball, beetfly, beet greens, beet juice, beetloaf, beet radish, beet red, beetroot, beet root, beet sugar, beeturia, beet Wellington, beetworm, beety, Chioggia beet, common beet), field beet, fodder beet, foliage beet, garden beet, Indian beet, leaf beet, lettucebeet, mangel beet, red as a beet, red beet, sea beet, silverbeet, sugar beet, sugarbeet, table beet, yellow beet- Related terms
- chard, mangelwurzel, orach, spinach
- Hyponyms
- chard