Turnip vs Beet - What's the difference?
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As nouns the difference between turnip and beet is that turnip is the white root of a yellow-flowered plant, brassica rapa , grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle while beet is bed (for plants).
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
turnip English
Noun
( en noun)
The white root of a yellow-flowered plant, Brassica rapa , grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle.
(Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall, Atlantic Canada) The yellow root of a related plant, the swede or Brassica napus .
Synonyms
* (Brassica rapa) (summer turnip), swede (Ireland, Northern England, Scotland), tumshie (Scotland), white turnip (Cornwall, Scotland)
Derived terms
* fall off the turnip truck
* Swedish turnip
* (turnip flea)
* (turnip fly)
See also
* rutabaga
* swede
* turnip greens
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beet English
Noun
(singulare tantum, sometimes, definite) Beta vulgaris , a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.
- The beet is a hardy species.
(countable) An individual plant (organism) of that species.
- They sell beets by the pound in the supermarket. All I want is the roots. Can I cut off the roots and buy them alone?
(countable) A swollen root of such a plant.
Derived terms
* beetroot
* beeturia
* lettucebeet
* mangel beet
* red beet
* silverbeet
* sugar beet, sugarbeet
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