1. [N. Amer] Round red root vegetable
   "She prepared a colourful salad with roasted beets and goat cheese";
   - beetroot [Brit]
    
2. Biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop
   "They planted rows of beets in their vegetable garden";
   - common beet, Beta vulgaris
    
3. [N. Amer] Beet having a massively swollen red root; widely grown for human consumption
   "The beet plants developed glossy leaves above their purple-red stems";
   - beetroot [Brit], Beta vulgaris rubra

Sounds like: beat

Derived forms: beets

Type of: root vegetable, vegetable

Part of: Beta, genus Beta

Encyclopedia: Beet, Maize & Corn