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beet

/biːt/

beet noun: beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.

beet: beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar
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Noun

beet (countable and uncountable, plural beets)

  1. Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.
    • The beet is a hardy species.
  2. (Canada, US) A beetroot; a swollen root of such a plant used as a culinary vegetable.
    • 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...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...

Verb

beet

  1. (dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To improve; to mend.
  2. (dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To kindle a fire.
  3. (dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To rouse.

Proper noun capitalized: Beet

Beet (plural Beets)

  1. A surname.

beet meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

beet in Hindi

Beta vulgaris — see also chard
चुक़ंदर cuqandar, चुकंदर cukandar

beet in Tamil

a root
பீட்ரூட் pīṭrūṭ, செங்கிழங்கு ceṅkiḻaṅku

beet in Urdu

Beta vulgaris — see also chard
چوقبدر cuqandar

beet in Malayalam

ഒരുതരം മധുരക്കിഴങ്ങ് ചെടി
More languagesFewer languages
beet in Assamese
বিট bit
beet in Tagalog
remolatsa
beet in Arabic
شَمَنْدَر šamandar, بَنْجَر banjar
beet in Malay
ubi bit merah
beet in Indonesian
bit merah
beet in Persian
چغندر čoġondar
beet in Vietnamese
củ cải ngọt

Examples of beet in a sentence

  • When he saw it, he blushed a beet red.
  • Carbonatation is used in refining sugar from sugar beet.
  • She felt terribly congested, her hands started to swell and her face turned beet red.

All 32 example sentences with beet

Forms of beet

Noun
pluralbeets
Verb
alternative formbete
Proper noun
pluralBeets

Plural of beet: beets

Origin of beet

From Middle English bete, from Old English bēte, from Latin bēta, possibly of Celtic origin.

From Middle English beten, from Old English bētan.

Words formed from beet

Phrases with beet

Words that rhyme with beet

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Questions about beet

What does beet mean?
Beet means beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.
What is beet in Hindi?
Beet in Hindi is चुक़ंदर (cuqandar), चुकंदर (cukandar). See Beet meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is beet?
Beet can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce beet?
Beet is pronounced /biːt/.
What is the plural of beet?
The plural of beet is beets.

Words near beet in the dictionary

  1. beeswaxes
  2. beeswaxing
  3. beeswing
  4. beeswinged
  5. beeswings
  6. beet
  7. beet armyworm
  8. beet armyworms
  9. beet greens
  10. beet juice
  11. beet juices

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: beet (page history and authors); Beet (page history and authors); beet (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); বিট (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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