beet

CEFRB2

/biːt/

noun · verb

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noun
biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop.
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noun
Extra detail
A beetroot; a swollen root of such a plant used as a culinary vegetable.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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To improve; to mend.
Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.

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In context

The beet is a hardy species.
In general, beets, carrots, and turnips are all of aphrodisiac value in erotic dietary.

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In general, beets, carrots, and turnips are all of aphrodisiac value in erotic dietary.
1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 42
In the past several years, Moonbelly and Faria, two bakeries whose flaky croissants and elegant loaves rival those at Du Pain et des Idées in Paris, have opened, with rotating offerings of buckwheat coffee cake, roasted bok choy-milk bread buns and focaccia sandwiches stuffed with beet and feta sold under the moniker “girl dinner.”
2023 December 5, Ella Quittner, “How WFH Helped Make Sacramento a Great Restaurant City”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2023

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From Middle English bete, from Old English bēte, from Latin bēta, possibly of Celtic origin.