beet
beet
Definition
beet (bēt)
noun
- any of a genus (Beta) of plants of the goosefoot family, with edible leaves and a thick, fleshy, white or red root
- the root of any of these plants: some are eaten as a vegetable, some serve as a source of sugar, and some are used for fodder
Etymology: ME & OE bete < L beta
beet
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- modify: For example the makers of silver spoon sugar have decided not to use genetically modified sugar beet.
- grow: We're delighted to be able to continue growing sugar beet on our farms.
Preposition: for
- persistence: Monitoring field releases of genetically modified sugar beets for persistence of transgenic plant DNA and horizontal gene transfer.
Adjective modifier
- gmht: Weed management for agricultural and environmental benefit in GMHT sugar beet.
- tolerant: On an average scenarios with genetically modified herbicide tolerant sugar beet led in an increased gross margin.
- transgenic: Over-wintering of transgenic sugar beet was found to be a source for dispersal of transgenic pollen [ 9 ] .
- conventional: Results of the UK Farm Scale Evaluations indicate that herbicide tolerant GM beet had more impacts on biodiversity than conventional beet [ 12 ] .
- red: Typical recipe: Potato salad with red beet Proverb: One cannot make soup out of beauty.
Modifies a noun
- pulp: Silver Charm, the 1997 Kentucky Derby winner received beet pulp in its diet.
- grower: I have raised in Parliament the problems facing sugar beet growers due to the proposed changes from Europe.
- sugar: Is excess capacity likely to result from EU beet sugar processors moving into cane sugar refining?
- crop: In general, spraying young beet crops is wasteful.
- factory: July 10 th 1924 There is much interest in the proposal to build a sugar beet factory in the Bury st Edmunds areas.
- juice: Many people mix carrot juice with beet juice for helping with liver problems.
Noun used with modifier
- sugar: Sugar beet now has the lowest nitrogen usage of any major arable crop in the UK.
- fodder: These studies indicate a greater removal of potash by fodder beet in practice than existing standards allow for.
- spinach: In cold areas start spinach and spinach beet off in pots under glass.
- weed: Weed beet can therefore evolve from seed of any beet left to flower in the field.
- leaf: Sow seed of perpetual spinach ( leaf beet ) to provide a useful crop from October through until April.
- sea: Also for the winter, and growing well, are purple sprouting broccoli and sea kale beet.
