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.
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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
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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
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“Beetroot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beetroot. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.
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