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Beet   /bit/   Listen
noun
Beet  n.  
1.
(Bot.) A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year.
2.
The root of plants of the genus Beta, different species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making sugar. Note: There are many varieties of the common beet (Beta vulgaris). The Old "white beet", cultivated for its edible leafstalks, is a distinct species (Beta Cicla).






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"Beet" Quotes from Famous Books



... stopped, started off again at full speed, changed its course, stopped anew, uneasy, spying out every danger, uncertain what route to take, when suddenly it began to run with great bounds, disappearing finally in a large patch of beet-root. All the men had waked up to watch the course of ...
— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant

... fail to distinguish between fruit sugar occurring naturally in fruit and ordinary separated and concentrated cane sugar, or even beet sugar separated by various chemicals—'shop sugar,' in fact—I translate for you a passage from Dr ...
— The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 - The Independent Health Magazine • Various

... we war at the schule thegither, I wad hae gien ye onything. Noo I hae gien ye a' thing, and my hert to the beet (boot) o' the bargain." ...
— Alec Forbes of Howglen • George MacDonald

... in these feasts. Having caught Cadine one day stealing a beet-root from a little hamper lined with hay, he had pulled her ears and given her a sound rating. These thieving propensities made her perfect as a ne'er-do-well. However, in spite of himself, he could not help feeling a sort of admiration for these ...
— The Fat and the Thin • Emile Zola

... oats, peas, potatoes, turnips, carrots, cabbage, asparagus, artichoke, spinach, beet, apple, pear, plum, apricot, nectarine, peach, strawberry, grape, orange, melon, cucumber, dried figs, raisins, sugar, honey. With a great variety of other roots, seeds, ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin


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