beet

From Middle English, from Old English bete, from Latin beta. Most likely of Celtic etymology.

• enPR: bēt, IPA^(key): /biːt/
• Homophone: beat
• Rhymes: -iːt

beet (plural beets)

1. Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.

   The beet is a hardy species.

   There are beets growing over these.

2. A beetroot, a swollen root of such a plant.

• chard
• mangelwurzel
• orach
• spinach

• beet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• beets on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Beta vulgaris on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
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• beet at University of Melbourne "Sorting plant names"

• bete

From Dutch beet, variant of biet, from Middle Dutch bete, from Latin bēta.

• IPA^(key): /biə̯t/, [biət]

beet (plural bete)

1. beetroot

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

• IPA^(key): /beːt/

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• Hyphenation: beet
• Rhymes: -eːt

From Middle Dutch bēte, from Old Dutch *biti, from Proto-Germanic *bitiz.

beet m (plural beten, diminutive beetje n)

1. bite

• beetgaar

• bijten

From Middle Dutch bete, from Latin bēta.

beet f (plural beten, diminutive beetje n)

1. Alternative form of biet.

• beetwortel

See the etymology of the main entry.

beet

1. singular past indicative of bijten

• bete

beet

1. Nominative plural form of bee.

beet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of beō

• baête (continental Normandy)
• bête (Jersey, Guernsey)

From Old French beste, from Latin bēstia.

beet f (plural beets)

1. (Sark) animal