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beetrooty

beetrooty adjective: resembling or characteristic of beetroot in color, texture, etc.

Adjective

beetrooty (comparative more beetrooty, superlative most beetrooty)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of beetroot in color, texture, etc.
    • "She's coming out," screamed the smallest boy, with the whitest face, the most beetrooty nose, the thinnest blouse, and the most precocious intellect ever seen or heard of.1859, Charles Allston Collins, “Our Eye-Witness and the Performing Bull”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round
    • The exertion of walking in a tight dress over rough fields made her momentarily more beetrooty.1862, James Hogg, Florence Marryat, editors, London Society
    Synonyms:
    beetrootish
  2. Containing beetroot.
    • The soup makes a good starter: Ukrainian barszcz (£4.50) is a rich, beetrooty affair.2003, Charles Campion, The rough guide to London restaurants
    • Innocent, sandy, smiling, smelling of clove cigarettes and beetrooty hamburgers and a faraway sea.2006, Kate Lyons, The Corner of Your Eye

Synonyms of beetrooty

Forms of beetrooty

comparativemore beetrooty
superlativemost beetrooty

Origin of beetrooty

From beetroot + -y.

Questions about beetrooty

What does beetrooty mean?
Beetrooty means resembling or characteristic of beetroot in color, texture, etc.
What part of speech is beetrooty?
Beetrooty is an adjective.

Words near beetrooty in the dictionary

  1. beetroot-red
  2. beetrooted
  3. beetrooting
  4. beetrootish
  5. beetroots
  6. beetrooty
  7. beets
  8. beeturia
  9. beetus
  10. beetworm
  11. beetworms

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