| common beet 
 
 biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root;
 widely cultivated as a food crop
 • Syn:
 beet, Beta vulgaris
 • Hypernyms:
 vegetable
 • Hyponyms:
 beetroot, Beta vulgaris rubra, chard, Swiss chard, spinach beet,
 leaf beet, chard plant, Beta vulgaris cicla, mangel-wurzel, mangold-wurzel, mangold,
 Beta vulgaris vulgaris, sugar beet
 • Member Holonyms:
 Beta, genus Beta
 
 
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