beet
English Thesaurus
1. round red root vegetable (noun.food)
| hypernym | : | root vegetable, |
| definition | : | any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | sugar beet, |
| definition | : | white-rooted beet grown as a source of sugar (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | mangel-wurzel, |
| definition | : | cultivated as feed for livestock (noun.food) |
| part meronym | : | beetroot, beta vulgaris rubra, |
| definition | : | beet having a massively swollen red root; widely grown for human consumption (noun.plant) |
2. biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | vegetable, |
| definition | : | any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | beetroot, beta vulgaris rubra, |
| definition | : | beet having a massively swollen red root; widely grown for human consumption (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | sugar beet, |
| definition | : | form of the common beet having a sweet white root from which sugar is obtained (noun.plant) |
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