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Carrot vs Beet - What's the difference?

carrot | beet |

As nouns the difference between carrot and beet

is that carrot is a vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, orange, sweet root, Daucus carota in the family Apiaceae while beet is Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.

carrot

English

(Daucus carota)

Noun

  • A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, orange, sweet root, Daucus carota in the family Apiaceae.
  • A shade of orange similar to the flesh of carrots.
  • A motivational tool.

    • Derived terms

    * carrot and stick * carrot bag * carrot cake * carrot cruncher * carrot top * carrotless * carrotlike * carroty

    References

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    See also

    * Queen Anne's lace

    Anagrams

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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

    See also

    * (wikipedia "beet") * (Beta vulgaris) * (commonslite) * chard * mangelwurzel * orach * spinach