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beetroot
  1. (Britain, New Zealand, Australia) A normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable usually cooked or pickled before eating; Synonym of beet.
  2. (usually uncountable) The edible part of the root of a beet plant, raw or prepared.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “I decided to add some roasted beetroot to my salad for a vibrant burst of color and earthy flavor.”
      “Then there's a raft of Oriental greens, corn salad, Bull's Blood beetroot and yellow tomatoes.”
      “They vend odd concoctions of karela, carrot, beetroot and maybe even brinjal.”
beet
  1. (countable) Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.
  2. (countable) A beetroot, a swollen root of such a plant.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “I harvested a basket of beets from my garden to make a delicious beet salad.”
      “My silver beet is loving the drought, with not a spot of rust anywhere to be seen.”
      “They were fed on a simple ration of barley, sugar beet pulp, soya and minerals.”
beeturia
  1. (medicine) The passing of red or pink urine after eating beetroot, caused by the excretion of betalain (betacyanin) pigments such as betanin.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The failure to metabolise betanin is controlled by genetic factors in man and beeturia (betanin in the urine) is found in approximately 14% of the population in this country (Watson, 1964).”
beetball
  1. A spherical food made from mashed beets, used as a vegetarian substitute for meatballs.
beetfly
  1. Pegomya hyoscyami, a fly whose leaf miner larvae often damage the leaves of beets and other greens.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Physiological changes in sugar beets after attachk by beetflies caused a mortality rise in beetfly larvae that later munched on the plants.”
beetroots
beetballs
  1. plural of beetball
beetflies
  1. plural of beetfly
beets
  1. plural of beet
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Instead, it had roasted beets, zucchini, onions, yams and red peppers, with mustard and romano cheese, on a high-quality baguette.”
      “The beets are cut up mechanically into slices in machines resembling giant food processors.”
      “The main crops are wheat, corn, sugar beets, sunflower seeds, and wine grapes.”
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