Beet

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

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.