beet
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++beet /biːt/ noun [countable, uncountable] 1. (also sugar beet)HBP a vegetable that sugar is made from 甜菜2. American EnglishDFHBP a plant with a round dark red root that you cook and eat as a vegetable 甜菜，甜菜根 SYN British English beetroot →5 see picture at 见图 vegetable13. red as a beet HBH American English informal having a red face, especially because you are embarrassed 〔尤指因尴尬而〕脸红的
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beet• Nineteen PACs run by cane and beet sugar growers gave $ 846,823.• Celery root and celery stalks are both edible, as are beets and beet greens.• For small early beets, sow small pots with 2-3 capsules and plant out seedling clusters unthinned.• Cereals and sugar beet, on the other hand, ripen well in such conditions.• Crawley will compare the ecology of engineered and conventional varieties of three crops: potatoes, oilseed rape and sugar beet.• It had been delivering sugar beet to Erfurt and was heading back to the farm.• Between the two, there's a warm goat cheese croquette with beet tartare, oysters Rockefeller, and other seductive offerings.Origin beet Old English bete, from Latin betabeet nounChinese
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beet
beet /biːt/
noun [uncountable and countable]
2. American English a plant with a round dark red root that you cook and eat as a vegetable
SYN beetroot British English
3. red as a beet American English informal having a red face, especially because you are embarrassed
beet /biːt/
noun [uncountable and countable] Language: Old English
Origin: bete, from Latin beta
1. (also sugar beet) a vegetable that sugar is made fromOrigin: bete, from Latin beta
2. American English a plant with a round dark red root that you cook and eat as a vegetable
SYN beetroot British English
3. red as a beet American English informal having a red face, especially because you are embarrassed
