beet

noun

• 1a herbaceous plant widely cultivated as a source of food for humans and livestock, and for processing into sugar. Some varieties are grown for their leaves and some for their large nutritious root.

  • Beta vulgaris, family Chenopodiaceae: several subspecies

• 2North American the edible root of a kind of beet that is typically dark red and spherical and eaten as a vegetable.
• the variety of beet that produces a dark red edible root, eaten as a vegetable.

  • Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris