| NOUN | plant | Beta vulgaris, beet, common beet | biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root |
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| Meaning | biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop. | |
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| Synonyms | beet, common beet | |
| Member of | Beta, genus Beta | beets |
| Narrower | beetroot, Beta vulgaris rubra | beet having a massively swollen red root |
| chard, Swiss chard, spinach beet, leaf beet, chard plant, Beta vulgaris cicla | beet lacking swollen root | |
| mangel-wurzel, mangold-wurzel, mangold, Beta vulgaris vulgaris | beet with a large yellowish root | |
| sugar beet | form of the common beet having a sweet white root from which sugar is obtained | |
| Broader | 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 |
| Spanish | betabel, betarraga, beta vulgaris, remolacha | |
| Catalan | beta vulgaris, Beta vulgaris, remolatxa | |
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