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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