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   Beet

   /bēt/

   

   noun

   • 1. a herbaceous plant widely cultivated as a source of food for humans and livestock, and for processing into sugar. Some varieties are grown for their leaves and some for their large nutritious root.
   • 2. the edible dark red spherical root of a kind of beet, eaten as a vegetable. North American
   • ▪ the variety of beet that produces dark red edible roots.

   Word Origin Old Englishbēte, of West Germanic origin, from Latin beta, perhaps of Celtic origin; related to Dutch beet and German Bete.

   Scrabble Points: 6

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