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beet

/biːt/ noun B1
  1. Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar. (countable, uncountable) · The beet is a hardy species.
  2. A beetroot; a swollen root of such a plant used as a culinary vegetable. (US, countable, uncountable)

Plural beets

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But Ruby Gillis says she saw him writing something on her slate and when Prissy read it she blushed as red as a beet and giggled; and Ruby Gillis says she doesn’t believe it had anything to do with the lesson.”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 108 · C1
I just swept her a look of freezing scorn and she got as red as a beet and spelled it wrong after all.”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 111 · C1
The editor was reading, with apparent delight, a leading article in the same paper on beet-sugar, probably a composition of his own.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 864 · C1

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