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- [beet]
- /bit/
- /biːt/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [beet]
- /bit/
Definitions of beet word
- uncountable noun beet Beet is a crop with a thick round root. It is often used to feed animals, especially cows. 3
- variable noun beet Beets are dark red roots that are eaten as a vegetable. They are often preserved in vinegar. 3
- noun beet any chenopodiaceous plant of the genus Beta, esp the Eurasian species B. vulgaris, widely cultivated in such varieties as the sugar beet, mangelwurzel, beetroot, and spinach beet 3
- noun beet the leaves of any of several varieties of this plant, which are cooked and eaten as a vegetable 3
- noun beet any of a genus (Beta) of plants of the goosefoot family, with edible leaves and a thick, fleshy, white or red root 3
- noun beet the root of any of these plants: some are eaten as a vegetable, some serve as a source of sugar, and some are used for fodder 3
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Origin of beet
First appearance:
before 1000 One of the 6% oldest English words
before 1000; Middle English bete, Old English bēte < Latin bēta
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Parts of speech for Beet
noun
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pronoun
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conjunction
determiner
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beet popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 92% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
beet usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for beet
noun beet
- beta — the second letter in the Greek alphabet (Β, β), a consonant, transliterated as b
- chard — Chard is a plant with a round root, large leaves, and a thick stalk.
- borscht — a Russian and Polish soup based on beetroot
- vegetable — any plant whose fruit, seeds, roots, tubers, bulbs, stems, leaves, or flower parts are used as food, as the tomato, bean, beet, potato, onion, asparagus, spinach, or cauliflower.
- plant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
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