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

Octopus with fennel and citrus ($22); Heirloom Tomato Salad with melon and burrata ($19); Gnocchi with beets, corn, charred broccolini and tomatoes ($32); and Caviar Cones with gochujang steak tartare ($15). —Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025

Other delicious detoxers are the anthocyanidins in berries, grapes and beets, polyphenols in green tea and resveratrol in red wine. —Sheah Rarback, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2025

Erivo’s beet lipstick was a similar shade to FKA Twigs’s, who paired her bird wing hair with white barely-there shadow. —Essence, 13 Oct. 2025

Intersperse ramekins of dips like roasted beet hummus, baba ghanoush, or a creamy artichoke spread for a pop of color, flavor, and texture. —Catharine Kaufman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 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