Beetroot vs. Beet

The beetroot is the taproot portion of a beet plant, usually known in Canada and the USA as beets while the vegetable is referred to as beetroot in British English, and also known as the table beet, garden beet, red beet, dinner beet or golden beet. It is one of several cultivated varieties of Beta vulgaris grown for their edible taproots and leaves (called beet greens); they have been classified as B. vulgaris subsp.

A biennial Eurasian plant (Beta vulgaris) grown as a crop plant for its edible roots and leaves.

the edible dark red spherical root of a kind of beet, eaten as a vegetable.

The swollen root of this plant eaten as a vegetable, typically having reddish flesh.

the variety of beet which produces beetroots.

The sugar beet.

The edible root of the beet.

Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.

A normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable usually cooked or pickled before eating; beet.

A beetroot, a swollen root of such a plant.

The edible part of the root of a beet plant, raw or prepared.

To improve; to mend.

To turn a bright red or purple colour.

To kindle a fire.

beet having a massively swollen red root; widely grown for human consumption

To rouse.

round red root vegetable

A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year.

The root of plants of the genus Beta, different species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making sugar.

biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop

round red root vegetable