单词 | beet |
释义 | beet (once / 2248 pages) n A beet is a reddish-purple colored root vegetable. You can roast beets, slice them, and add them to a salad. When you peel a cooked beet, your fingers will be temporarily stained red. Beets are distinctive for their deep color and their round shape — though there are also a few varieties that are yellow. You can eat both the round, fleshy part of a beet plant and also its green leaves. The British version of beet, which is thought to have a Celtic origin, is beetroot. WORD FAMILYbeet: beets USAGE EXAMPLESOther names include white beet, strawberry spinach, seakale beet, leaf beet, Sicilian beet, spinach beet, Chilean beet, Roman kale and silverbeet. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) Include brightly colored produce, including dark leafy greens, berries, broccoli, cabbage and beets. Seattle Times(Dec 28, 2016) Then there is the curious kind with concentric fuchsia stripes inside, revealed when the beet is cut horizontally. New York Times(Dec 23, 2016) 1n biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop Syn|Hypo|Hyper Beta vulgaris, common beet Beta vulgaris rubra, beetroot beet having a massively swollen red root; widely grown for human consumption Beta vulgaris cicla, Swiss chard, chard, chard plant, leaf beet, spinach beetbeet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks Beta vulgaris vulgaris, mangel-wurzel, mangold, mangold-wurzelbeet with a large yellowish root; grown chiefly as cattle feed sugar beetform of the common beet having a sweet white root from which sugar is obtained 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 2n round red root vegetable Syn|Hypo|Hyper beetroot sugar beet white-rooted beet grown as a source of sugar mangel-wurzelcultivated as feed for livestock root vegetable any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers |
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