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Beetroot vs. Radish — What's the Difference?

Beetroot vs. Radish — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Beetroot and Radish

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Beetroot

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.

Radish

The radish (Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus) is an edible root vegetable of the family Brassicaceae that was domesticated in Asia prior to Roman times.

Beetroot

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

Radish

A swollen pungent-tasting edible root, especially a variety which is small, spherical, and red, and eaten raw with salad.

Beetroot

The variety of beet which produces beetroots.
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Radish

The plant of the cabbage family which yields the radish.

Beetroot

The edible root of the beet.

Radish

A Eurasian plant (Raphanus sativus) in the mustard family, having a fleshy edible root and white to purple flowers clustered in a terminal raceme.

Beetroot

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

Radish

The pungent root of this plant, often eaten raw.

Beetroot

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

Radish

A plant of the Brassicaceae family, Raphanus sativus or Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus, having an edible root.

Beetroot

To turn a bright red or purple colour.

Radish

The root of this plant used as food. Some varieties are pungent and usually eaten raw in salads, etc., while others have a milder taste and are cooked.

Beetroot

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

Radish

With a distinguishing word: some other plant of the Raphanus genus or Brassicaceae family.

Beetroot

Round red root vegetable

Radish

The pungent fleshy root of a well-known cruciferous plant (Raphanus sativus); also, the whole plant.

Radish

Pungent fleshy edible root

Radish

Pungent edible root of any of various cultivated radish plants

Radish

Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its edible pungent root usually eaten raw

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