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BEETROOT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Round red root vegetable

Synonyms:

beet; beetroot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("beetroot" is a kind of...):

root vegetable (any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "beetroot"):

sugar beet (white-rooted beet grown as a source of sugar)

mangel-wurzel (cultivated as feed for livestock)

Holonyms ("beetroot" is a part of...):

beetroot; Beta vulgaris rubra (beet having a massively swollen red root; widely grown for human consumption)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Beet having a massively swollen red root; widely grown for human consumption

Synonyms:

beetroot; Beta vulgaris rubra

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("beetroot" is a kind of...):

beet; Beta vulgaris; common beet (biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop)

Meronyms (parts of "beetroot"):

beet; beetroot (round red root vegetable)

beet green (young leaves of the beetroot)

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