| NOUN | plant | beetroot, Beta vulgaris rubra | beet having a massively swollen red root |
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| food | beetroot, beet | round red root vegetable |
| Meaning | beet having a massively swollen red root; widely grown for human consumption. | |
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| Synonym | Beta vulgaris rubra | |
| Parts | beet, beetroot | round red root vegetable |
| beet green | young / young leaves of the beetroot | |
| Broader | beet, common beet, Beta vulgaris | biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root |
| Spanish | remolacha | |
| Meaning | round red root vegetable. | |
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| Synonym | beet | |
| Part of | beetroot, Beta vulgaris rubra | beet having a massively swollen red root |
| Narrower | mangel-wurzel | cultivated as feed for livestock |
| sugar beet | white-rooted beet grown as a source of sugar | |
| Broader | root vegetable | Any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers |
| Spanish | betarraga, beterraga, remolacha | |
| Catalan | bleda-rave, remolatxa | |
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