beet : Idioms & Phrases
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beet armyworm
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noun moth larva that eats foliage of beets and other vegetables
Spodoptera exigua.
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beet blight
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noun a disease of beet plants
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beet green
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noun young leaves of the beetroot
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beet radish
Beet" rad`ish
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Same as Beetrave .
Webster 1913
beet sugar
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noun sugar made from sugar beets
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noun sugar from sugar beets used as sweetening agent
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common beet
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noun biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop
beet; Beta vulgaris.
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indian beet
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noun stout perennial of eastern and central North America having palmate leaves and showy racemose blue flowers
Lupinus perennis; sundial lupine; wild lupine; old-maid's bonnet.
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leaf beet
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noun beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks
Swiss chard; Beta vulgaris cicla; chard plant; leaf beet; chard.
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noun long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves
leaf beet; Swiss chard; chard.
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spinach beet
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noun beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks
Swiss chard; Beta vulgaris cicla; chard plant; leaf beet; chard.
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noun long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves
leaf beet; Swiss chard; chard.
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Sugar beet
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noun form of the common beet having a sweet white root from which sugar is obtained
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noun white-rooted beet grown as a source of sugar
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(Bot.) , a variety of beet (Beta vulgaris ) with very large white roots, extensively grown, esp. in Europe, for the sugar obtained from them.
