BEET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beet mean? 

• BEET (noun)
  The noun BEET has 2 senses:

1. biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop

2. round red root vegetable

  Familiarity information: BEET used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

beet; Beta vulgaris; common beet

Hypernyms ("beet" is a kind of...):

vegetable (any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "beet"):

beetroot; Beta vulgaris rubra (beet having a massively swollen red root; widely grown for human consumption)

Beta vulgaris cicla; chard; chard plant; leaf beet; spinach beet; Swiss chard (beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks)

Beta vulgaris vulgaris; mangel-wurzel; mangold; mangold-wurzel (beet with a large yellowish root; grown chiefly as cattle feed)

sugar beet (form of the common beet having a sweet white root from which sugar is obtained)

Holonyms ("beet" is a member of...):

Beta; genus Beta (beets)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Round red root vegetable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

beet; beetroot

Hypernyms ("beet" is a kind of...):

root vegetable (any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "beet"):

sugar beet (white-rooted beet grown as a source of sugar)

mangel-wurzel (cultivated as feed for livestock)

Holonyms ("beet" is a part of...):

beetroot; Beta vulgaris rubra (beet having a massively swollen red root; widely grown for human consumption)

 Context examples 

A substance found in some fruits, sugar beets, and sugar cane.

(Glycolic acid, NCI Dictionary)

The hydrochloride form of betaine, a crystalline alkaloid occurring in sugar beets and other plants.

(Betaine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

He counted alfalfa, sugar beet, papaya, squash, eggplant, potato and apple among GM crops already in the market.

(GM tech expands with more crops to more countries, SciDev.Net)