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

beets

beet having a massively swollen red root; widely grown for human consumption

beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks

beet with a large yellowish root; grown chiefly as cattle feed

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

beets