beet

Speech parts

1. beet - Noun

2. beet - Verb

3. Beet - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

Antonyms

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

Phrases with the word

Anagrams

Examples

This book is gaudy like a gilded cauliflower which smells so bad after a good hot water soaking, like hot chocolate sweetened with sugar beet / incompatibles blended incongruously to no purpose. Peter Greenaway

The beet must be uprooted. Roland Freisler

Sometimes I order a beet salad, so when the waiter comes and lays down my salad I can say "thanks for laying down those funky beets". It's an expensive joke because I don't even like beets. Zach Galifianakis

To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet. Alan Watts

I am not Dwight Schrute, okay? I played a character for 200 episodes, and it was an awesome character, and he was a beet farmer. That doesn't mean you should hand me beets or make beet jokes every time I go into Starbucks and ask if they have like a beet latte or something like that. Rainn Wilson

Red as a beet. Traditional Proverb

Close letter words and terms