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Definition of beet in English: beetnoun biːtbit 1A herbaceous plant widely cultivated as a source of food for humans and livestock, and for processing into sugar. Some varieties are grown for their leaves and some for their large nutritious root. Beta vulgaris, family Chenopodiaceae: several subspecies Example sentencesExamples - Its agricultural crops are wheat, potatoes, sugar beets, barley, grapes, and cheese.
- It also contained two to three times the sugar content of sugar cane or sugar beets - think sugared cereal for cows.
- Maize and beet are widely grown in the Park by organic and non-organic farmers as livestock fodder crops.
- Another major industry concern is the tendency of mud and soil to stick to sugar beets at harvest, embedded in natural ridges.
- Relatively easy to grow, beets are hardy and grow best in cool weather.
- The major crops grown by large agricultural enterprises are grain, sunflower seeds, and sugar beets.
- We have to build these tools for sugar beets because very few members of its plant family have been mapped.
- Most sugar beets are rough and grooved, so lots of soil sticks to them when they're pulled from the ground.
- We plant successive crops of beets all season long, so they are almost always available to include.
- Since it is derived from sugar beets, it contains a rich spectrum of nutrients.
- Slugs are attacking my leaf beet leaves growing in one of the containers on the patio.
- In agriculture the main products are meat and dairy, potatoes, sugar beets, barley, wheat, and turnips.
- Finally I took pity on the leaf beet plants outside which were still looking rather sad, and repotted them into fresh compost.
- Major crops are wheat and other grains, sugar beets, and potatoes.
- I also planted out the leaf beet seeds - they're not so large but they will do equally well outside.
- Europeans actually get their sugar from sugar beets which is laughable.
- It costs twice as much to produce sugar from the beet grown in Europe than from the cane grown elsewhere.
- The surrounding farmers raise sugar beets, corn, and sunflowers for oil.
- The main crops are wheat, corn, sugar beets, sunflower seeds, and wine grapes.
- Sweet stuff, usually white when processed, sometimes brown, made from sugar beets or sugarcane…
Synonyms repair, fix, put back together, piece together, patch up, restore, sew, sew up, stitch, darn, patch, cobble, botch, vamp, vamp up 2North American another term for beetroot
Origin Old English bēte, of West Germanic origin, from Latin beta, perhaps of Celtic origin; related to Dutch beet and German Bete. Rhymes accrete, autocomplete, bittersweet, bleat, cheat, cleat, clubfeet, compete, compleat, complete, conceit, Crete, deceit, delete, deplete, discreet, discrete, eat, effete, élite, entreat, escheat, estreat, excrete, feat, feet, fleet, gîte, greet, heat, leat, leet, Magritte, maltreat, marguerite, meat, meet, meet-and-greet, mesquite, mete, mistreat, neat, outcompete, peat, Pete, petite, pleat, receipt, replete, sangeet, seat, secrete, sheet, skeet, sleet, splay-feet, street, suite, sweet, teat, treat, tweet, wheat Definition of beet in US English: beetnounbitbēt 1A herbaceous plant widely cultivated as a source of food for humans and livestock, and for processing into sugar. Some varieties are grown for their leaves and some for their large nutritious root. Beta vulgaris, family Chenopodiaceae: several subspecies Example sentencesExamples - Europeans actually get their sugar from sugar beets which is laughable.
- Finally I took pity on the leaf beet plants outside which were still looking rather sad, and repotted them into fresh compost.
- Maize and beet are widely grown in the Park by organic and non-organic farmers as livestock fodder crops.
- The main crops are wheat, corn, sugar beets, sunflower seeds, and wine grapes.
- We have to build these tools for sugar beets because very few members of its plant family have been mapped.
- We plant successive crops of beets all season long, so they are almost always available to include.
- It also contained two to three times the sugar content of sugar cane or sugar beets - think sugared cereal for cows.
- Slugs are attacking my leaf beet leaves growing in one of the containers on the patio.
- It costs twice as much to produce sugar from the beet grown in Europe than from the cane grown elsewhere.
- Another major industry concern is the tendency of mud and soil to stick to sugar beets at harvest, embedded in natural ridges.
- I also planted out the leaf beet seeds - they're not so large but they will do equally well outside.
- Most sugar beets are rough and grooved, so lots of soil sticks to them when they're pulled from the ground.
- Sweet stuff, usually white when processed, sometimes brown, made from sugar beets or sugarcane…
- Major crops are wheat and other grains, sugar beets, and potatoes.
- Relatively easy to grow, beets are hardy and grow best in cool weather.
- Its agricultural crops are wheat, potatoes, sugar beets, barley, grapes, and cheese.
- The surrounding farmers raise sugar beets, corn, and sunflowers for oil.
- In agriculture the main products are meat and dairy, potatoes, sugar beets, barley, wheat, and turnips.
- Since it is derived from sugar beets, it contains a rich spectrum of nutrients.
- The major crops grown by large agricultural enterprises are grain, sunflower seeds, and sugar beets.
2North American The edible dark red spherical root of a kind of beet, eaten as a vegetable. - 2.1 The variety of beet that produces dark red edible roots.
Example sentencesExamples - They sowed potatoes, carrots, beetroot, lettuce, scallions, onion sets, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels sprouts and celery.
- The beetroot plants are looking good, and I took some of the leaves to cook yesterday although it turned into a culinary disaster so it didn't get eaten!
- I also dug up a few of the beetroot plants, but they haven't formed roots yet.
- I've also planted a few beetroot seeds and I'm planning on doing a few more tomorrow and on starting the carrots.
- After planting the beetroot, the children were shown how to create their own pot plants out of newspaper.
Origin Old English bēte, of West Germanic origin, from Latin beta, perhaps of Celtic origin; related to Dutch beet and German Bete. |