单词 | beet |
释义 | beet From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Food Plantsbeetbeet /biːt/ noun [countable, uncountable]1 (also sugar beet)HBP a vegetable that sugar is made from2 American EnglishDFHBP a plant with a round dark red root that you cook and eat as a vegetable SYN beetroot British English3 → red as a beetExamples from the Corpusbeet• 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.• 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 beta |
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