beet

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It is just as drought tolerant as a beet, and in dry gardening, chard is sown, spaced, and grown just like a beet.

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  1. noun A biennial Eurasian plant (Beta vulgaris) grown as a crop plant for its edible roots and leaves.
  2. noun The swollen root of this plant eaten as a vegetable, typically having reddish flesh.
  3. noun The sugar beet.

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  • The Old Buzzard was getting as red as a beet, and Sherry told Forest he'd better leave He left the painting there, I gather Amy nodded. —  Braun_lilian_Jackson_13_The_Cat_Who_Moved_a_Mountain
  • His face got red as a beet, and he laid his walking stick about Tartini's head and shoulders. —  AHMM,December2007
  • I found intensely sweet purple yams (as purple as a beet is red, and tasty with just salt and butter), fresh taro and lotus roots, garlic chives, Chinese broccoli, bitter melon and squashes. —  Colorado Springs Independent
  • Wishing to give a death blow to the beet, he said: "The culture of the beet is undoubtedly useful, but this usefulness is limited_. —  Sophisms of the Protectionists
  • "And why did my son put my most cherished work into a stranger's hands without my knowledge Because--" began Phil; then he got as red as a beet, and stood plucking at the skirt of nurse's gown without another word I felt sorry for Phil. —  We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses
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  1. Middle English bete, from Old English bēte, from Latin bēta.

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  1. from Middle English bete, from Anglo-Saxon bēte (not *bēta) = OFries. bete = Dutch beet, biet = Low German bete = Old High German bieza, Middle High German bieze (German beete, after Low German or L.) = Swedish beta = Danish bede = French bette = Italian bieta, from Latin bēta, beet.
  2. English dial. beet, beat, Scots beet, beit, from Middle English beten, from Anglo-Saxon bētan (= Old Saxon bōtian = OFries. bēta = Dutch boeten = Low German böten = Old High German buozzen, Middle High German büezzen, German büssen = Icelandic bœta = Swedish b⊙ta = Danish böde), mend, improve, make good, from bōt, improvement, reparation, boot: see boot, which is related to beet as food to feed, brood to breed, etc. The word was particularly used in reference to mending, and hence by extension to kindling, fires: Middle English beten fyr, from Anglo-Saxon bētan fy¯r = Dutch boeten vuur = Low German böten vüer: cf. Swedish böta eld, etc. Cf. beat.
 

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