beet-root

A form of beetroot — A normally deep-red-colored root vegetable usually cooked or pickled before eating.

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Meanings

nounbeet-root (countable and uncountable, plural beet-roots)

plural beet-roots

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of beetroot.

    Slice and cut into squares as many cold cooked beet-roots as needed and place them in wide-mouthed pickle bottles; […]

    1896, Oscar Tschirky, The Cook Book by “Oscar” of the Waldorf, Chicago, Ill.; Akron, Ohio; New York, N.Y.: The Saalfield Publishing Co., page 858
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    From ſome late and well-conducted experiments, there is good reaſon to think ſugar may be extracted from beet-root, not inferior in flavour to the common growth of America.

    1787 July 26, The Bath Chronicle, volume XXVI, number 1391, […] R. Cruttwell, […]

    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.

    1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter X, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 188
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