Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The root of the beet-plant. See beet.

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Examples

  • Turns out Kiwi's like beet-root on a lot of stuff including burgers.

    Jalapeno cheese bun recipe for a proper Texas burger | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009

  • Then we cooked our dinner, sat down in front of the TV, watched "Generations," and ate beet-root, stewed beef, potatoes and pumpkin.

    Farewell to Africa, good morning Iraq! 2007

  • At each, there are a great many small dishes and plates upon the table, with very little in them; so that although there is every appearance of a mighty ‘spread,’ there is seldom really more than a joint: except for those who fancy slices of beet-root, shreds of dried beef, complicated entanglements of yellow pickle; maize, Indian corn, apple-sauce, and pumpkin.

    American Notes for General Circulation 2007

  • Garnish your dish with creed rice, and red beet-root.

    English Housewifery 2004

  • He told me for one thing, after we had passed the mountain gates of the famous Vega and were making our way under the moonlight over the storied expanse, drenched with the blood of battles long ago, that the tall chimneys we began to see blackening the air with their volumed fumes were the chimneys of fourteen beet-root sugar factories belonging to the Duke of

    Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

  • They would speak Arabic, but they would not know how to transplant beet-root, and how to sow wheat.

    Bel Ami 2003

  • Ivanovich and ask him, her cheek leaning on her hand, “If only you could find out, darling, what Enyusha would like best for dinner today, beet-root soup or cabbage broth?”

    Fathers and Sons 2003

  • An immense quantity of sugar is imported, a third of which is loaf beet-root sugar brought from Marseilles.

    Travels in Morocco 2003

  • Alternating with the dark hue of clover and the raw green of beet-root, the yellow corn lighted up the landscape with gleams of pale gold; the fields looked as if they had drunk in the sunshine which poured down on them.

    Pierre And Jean 2003

  • Mr. Elton was still talking, still engaged in some interesting detail; and Emma experienced some disappointment when she found that he was only giving his fair companion an account of the yesterday's party at his friend Cole's, and that she was come in herself for the Stilton cheese, the north Wiltshire, the butter, the cellery, the beet-root, and all the dessert.

    Emma Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 2001

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