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/biːt/
Noun
Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.
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The beet is a hardy species.
A beetroot; a swollen root of such a plant used as a culinary vegetable.
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In general, beets, carrots, and turnips are all of aphrodisiac value in erotic dietary.
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In the past several years, Moonbelly and Faria, two bakeries whose flaky croissants and elegant loaves rival those at Du Pain et des Idées in Paris, have opened, with rotating offerings of buckwheat coffee cake, roasted bok choy-milk bread buns and focaccia sandwiches stuffed with beet and feta sold under the moniker “girl dinner.”
Verb
To improve; to mend.
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To kindle a fire.
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To rouse.
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Noun
biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop
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round red root vegetable
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