BEET
Dictionary entry overview: What does beet mean?
• BEET (noun)
The noun BEET has 2 senses:
1. biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop
2. round red root vegetable
Familiarity information: BEET used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BEET (noun)
Meaning:
Biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
beet; Beta vulgaris; common beet
Hypernyms ("beet" is a kind of...):
vegetable (any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "beet"):
beetroot; Beta vulgaris rubra (beet having a massively swollen red root; widely grown for human consumption)
Beta vulgaris cicla; chard; chard plant; leaf beet; spinach beet; Swiss chard (beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks)
Beta vulgaris vulgaris; mangel-wurzel; mangold; mangold-wurzel (beet with a large yellowish root; grown chiefly as cattle feed)
sugar beet (form of the common beet having a sweet white root from which sugar is obtained)
Holonyms ("beet" is a member of...):
Beta; genus Beta (beets)
Meaning:
Round red root vegetable
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
beet; beetroot
Hypernyms ("beet" is a kind of...):
root vegetable (any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "beet"):
sugar beet (white-rooted beet grown as a source of sugar)
mangel-wurzel (cultivated as feed for livestock)
Holonyms ("beet" is a part of...):
beetroot; Beta vulgaris rubra (beet having a massively swollen red root; widely grown for human consumption)
