Beetroot or Beet - What's the difference?
beetroot | beet |
A normally deep red coloured cultivar of the beet. A root vegetable usually cooked or pickled before eating.
(singulare tantum, sometimes, definite) Beta vulgaris , a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.
(countable) An individual plant (organism) of that species.
(countable) A swollen root of such a plant.
Beet is a derived term of beetroot.
As nouns the difference between beetroot and beet
is that beetroot is a normally deep red coloured cultivar of the beet. A root vegetable usually cooked or pickled before eating while beet is Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.beetroot
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(wikipedia beetroot)Alternative forms
* beet rootNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* red beet * table beetDerived terms
* red as a beetrootAnagrams
*beet
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Noun
- The beet is a hardy 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?
