genus Beta, Beta - beets

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

Beta vulgaris cicla, chard, chard plant, leaf beet, spinach beet, Swiss chard - beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks

Beta vulgaris vulgaris, mangel-wurzel, mangold, mangold-wurzel - beet with a large yellowish root; grown chiefly as cattle feed

sugar beet - form of the common beet having a sweet white root from which sugar is obtained

vegetable - any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower

root vegetable - any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers

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

mangel-wurzel - cultivated as feed for livestock

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