beetroot

noun

beet·​root ˈbēt-ˌrüt How to pronounce beetroot (audio)
chiefly British
: a beet grown for its edible usually red root
also : the root

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Some companies are working on creating natural food colorings from compounds found in plants like beetroot or spirulina, a blue-green algae. Allison Aubrey, NPR, 18 Jan. 2025 Borscht, for the uninitiated who may not have had a bubbe of Romanian descent who had jars of the sour soup in her Miami Beach kitchen cabinets in the 1970s, is made with meat stock, vegetables like red beetroots or the leafy green sorrel or cabbage and seasonings. Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 14 Jan. 2025 From sushi and sandos to lime corn salad, dan dan noodles and sweet Breton butter cake, via camel milk chocolates, spicy fries, beetroot rice and lily flowering tea, there will be something on the menu to tickle your palate. Katharina Kotrba, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024 Jose Mourinho came to expect that his Manchester United sides would be leaked (Ozan Kose/AFP via Getty Images) Luckhurst, by his own admission, went a shade of beetroot when Mourinho saw him at a media event before Fenerbahce took on United in Turkey last month. Daniel Taylor, The Athletic, 18 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for beetroot 

Word History

First Known Use

1579, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of beetroot was in 1579

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“Beetroot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beetroot. Accessed 24 Jan. 2025.

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