noun
biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop
• Syn: ↑beet, ↑common beet
• Hypernyms: ↑vegetable
• Hyponyms:
↑beetroot, ↑Beta vulgaris rubra, ↑chard, ↑Swiss chard, ↑spinach beet, ↑leaf beet, ↑chard plant, ↑Beta vulgaris cicla, ↑mangel-wurzel, ↑mangold-wurzel, ↑mangold, ↑Beta vulgaris vulgaris, ↑sugar beet
• Member Holonyms: ↑Beta, ↑genus Beta
Useful english dictionary. 2012.