Beet



GRE

解释

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• n. 甜菜
• ［记］ 也叫sugar beet或beet roo

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Etymology: Middle English bete, from Old English bēte, from Latin beta
• Date: before 12th century
• a biennial garden plant (Beta vulgaris) of the goosefoot family that includes several cultivars (as Swiss chard and sugar beet) and that has thick edible leaves with long petioles and often swollen purplish-red roots; also its root used especially as a vegetable, as a source of sugar, or for forage

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