noun. A biennial Eurasian plant (Beta vulgaris) grown as a crop plant for its edible roots and leaves.

noun. The swollen root of this plant eaten as a vegetable, typically having reddish flesh.

noun. The sugar beet.

noun. Same as beat.

noun. A plant of the genus Beta, natural order Chenopodiaceœ.

To make better; improve; alleviate or relieve (hunger, thirst, grief, the needs of a person, etc.).

To mend; repair; put to rights.

To make or kindle (a fire); hence, to fire or rouse.

To mend or replenish (a fire); add fuel to.

noun. Same as beat.

noun. A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year.

noun. The root of plants of the genus Beta, different species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making sugar.

noun. Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.

noun. An individual plant (organism) of that species.

noun. A swollen root of such a plant.

noun. round red root vegetable

noun. biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop

"Therefore, Wiggs kept the word beet to himself, fine and private, despite his sensitivity to Priscilla's burning curiosity about the comettailed vegetable that had extended its crimson orbit into her atmosphere."