Definition of "beet" []

• A biennial Eurasian plant (Beta vulgaris) grown as a crop plant for its edible roots and leaves. (noun)
• The swollen root of this plant eaten as a vegetable, typically having reddish flesh. (noun)
• The sugar beet. (noun)

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• "Therefore, Wiggs kept the word beet to himself, fine and private, despite his sensitivity to Priscilla's burning curiosity about the comettailed vegetable that had extended its crimson orbit into her atmosphere."
• "And yet ever so simple, just hard-boiled eggs soaked overnight in beet juice."
• "In addition, a minimum pricing system run by the CAP [Common Agricultural Policy] guarantees that sugar made from his beet is bought for at least three times more than world prices."