beet

noun

ˈbēt 

: a biennial garden plant (Beta vulgaris) of the amaranth family that includes several cultivars (such as Swiss chard and sugar beet) and that has thick edible leaves with long petioles and often swollen purplish-red roots

also : its root used especially as a vegetable, as a source of sugar, or for forage

Examples of beet in a Sentence

I've planted carrots, parsnips, and beets in the garden.

Recent Examples on the Web

Campbell’s, for instance, said red Goldfish get their color from beet juice concentrate and paprika from sweet red peppers. —Louis Biscotti, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025

Watching beets grow is almost as bad as eating them, all of us agreed. —Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025

Mix beet juice with juice from berries, apples, and other vegetables to enhance palatability. —Lindsey Desoto, Health, 9 Sep. 2025

Turmeric makes things yellow; beets produce red; a seed called annatto can give orange; blue can come from spirulina, an algae. —Alina Selyukh, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025

Word History

Etymology

Middle English bete, from Old English bēte, from Latin beta

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing beet

• beet armyworm
• beet leafhopper
• beet red
• red as a beet
• sugar beet

Rhymes for beet

• beat
• bleat
• cheat
• cleat
• creat
• deet
• eat
• feat
• feet
• fleet
• greet
• heat

Kids Definition

beet

noun

ˈbēt 

: a garden plant with thick long-stalked edible leaves and usually an enlarged purplish red root used as a vegetable, as a source of sugar, or as food for livestock

also : this root