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beetroot

UK/ˈbiːt.ɹuːt/

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Multicultural London English/ˈbi.t͡ʃɹyʔ/

beetroot noun: a normally deep-red-colored root vegetable usually cooked or pickled before eating.

beetroot: a normally deep-red-colored root vegetable usually cooked or pickled before eating
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Noun

beetroot (countable and uncountable, plural beetroots)

  1. (Australia, India, New Zealand, UK) A normally deep-red-colored root vegetable usually cooked or pickled before eating.
  2. (uncountable, usually) The edible part of the root of a beet plant, raw or prepared.

Verb

beetroot (third-person singular simple present beetroots, present participle beetrooting, simple past and past participle beetrooted)

  1. (informal, intransitive) To turn a bright red or purple color.
    • He straightened up as a spring, beetrooted to the root of his pale hair, and answered wildly, "Ki-Ki-Kan!" I backed prudently towards the door, still keeping that indulgent but firm expression no one sees on the face of warders in lunatic asylums.1919, The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality, volume 108, page 356
    • Harmon's face beetrooted. He strode from the office, stared at the cell block, and swore with artistry.2014, Arthur W. Upfield, Bony and the Mouse

beetroot meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu

beetroot in Hindi

normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
चुकंदर cukandar

beetroot in Tamil

normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
பீட்ரூட் pīṭrūṭ, செங்கிழங்கு ceṅkiḻaṅku

beetroot in Urdu

normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
چکبصور cukundur

beetroot in Telugu

normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable
బీట్రూట్ bīṭrūṭ, బీటుదుంప bīṭudumpa
More languagesFewer languages
beetroot in Sanskrit
भशिरा bhaśirā
beetroot in Sinhala
බීට් bīṭ
beetroot in Arabic
شَمَنْدَر أَحْمَر šamandar ʔaḥmar, بَنْجَر banjar
beetroot in Persian
چغندر čoġondar
beetroot in Thai
บีตรูต bìit-rúut
beetroot in Vietnamese
củ cải đường, củ dền

Synonyms of beetroot

Forms of beetroot

Noun
pluralbeetroots
alternative formbeet root
alternative formbeet-root
Verb
third-person singular presentbeetroots
present participlebeetrooting
past participlebeetrooted
pastbeetrooted

Plural of beetroot: beetroots

Origin of beetroot

From beet + root.

Words formed from beetroot

Phrases with beetroot

Questions about beetroot

What does beetroot mean?
Beetroot means a normally deep-red-colored root vegetable usually cooked or pickled before eating.
What is beetroot in Hindi?
Beetroot in Hindi is चुकंदर (cukandar). See Beetroot meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is beetroot?
Beetroot can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce beetroot?
Beetroot is pronounced /ˈbi.t͡ʃɹyʔ/ (Multicultural London English).
What is the plural of beetroot?
The plural of beetroot is beetroots.

Words near beetroot in the dictionary

  1. Beeton
  2. Beetonian
  3. Beetown
  4. beetrave
  5. beetraves
  6. beetroot
  7. beetroot juice
  8. beetroot juices
  9. beetroot red
  10. beetroot-red
  11. beetrooted

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: beetroot (page history and authors); भशिरा (Sanskrit) (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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