beet
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: bēt, IPA(key): /biːt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Homophone: beat
- Rhymes: -iːt
Etymology 1
From Middle English bete, from Old English bēte, from Latin bēta, possibly of Celtic origin.
Noun
beet (plural beets)
- Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.
- The beet is a hardy species.
- (US, Canada) A beetroot, a swollen root of such a plant.
Usage notes
Unlike beetroot, beet is not usually uncountable when referring to the food: pickled beets (cf. pickled beetroot).
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- becurtovirus
- beetball
- beetfly
- beetloaf
- beet radish
- beet red
- beetroot
- beet root
- beet sugar
- beeturia
- beet Wellington
- beetworm
- beety
- Chioggia beet
- Indian beet
- lettucebeet
- mangel beet
- red as a beet
- red beet
- sea beet
- silverbeet
- sugar beet, sugarbeet
- yellow beet
Translations
Beta vulgaris — see also chard
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See also
References
- beet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Category:beets on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Beta vulgaris on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Beta on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- beet at University of Melbourne "Sorting plant names"
Etymology 2
From Old English bētan.
Alternative forms
Verb
beet
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /biə̯t/, [biət]
Audio (file)
References
- 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /beːt/
audio (Belgium) (file) audio (Netherlands) (file) - Hyphenation: beet
- Rhymes: -eːt
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch bēte, from Old Dutch *biti, from Proto-Germanic *bitiz.
Derived terms
- beetgaar
- beethebben
- beetnemen
- beetpakken
Related terms
Descendants
- Negerhollands: bit
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch bete, from Latin bēta.
Derived terms
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Anagrams
Finnish
Latin
Middle English
Norman
Etymology
From Old French beste, from Latin bēstia.
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