Meaning

2 senses
  1. (Australia, India, New Zealand, UK, countable, uncountable)A normally deep-red-colored root vegetable usually cooked or pickled before eating.

    Rote Bete, Rote Beete, Rote Rübe

    свёклаsvjókla, свекла́sveklá, бура́кburák

    буря́кburják

    round red root vegetable

  2. (uncountable, usually)The edible part of the root of a beet plant, raw or prepared.

Examples

11 sentences
  1. I took a beetroot extract today.

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  2. I drank some beetroot extract today.

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  3. Tom went red as a beetroot.

    deTom wurde rot wie eine Rübe.

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  4. He went as red as a beetroot.

    deEr wurde knallrot.

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  5. Tom went as red as a beetroot.

    deTom wurde rot wie eine Rübe.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable:
Русский
By meaning 1
normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable:

Origin

From beet + root.

From beet + root.

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Forms

plural: beetroots

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • beet having a massively swollen red root; widely grown for human consumption:Beta vulgaris rubra
  • round red root vegetable:beet

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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