Beets

1. A biennial plant grown as a crop plant for its edible root and leaves, The swollen root of this plant is eaten as a vegetable. The beet has a long history of cultivation stretching back to the second millennium BC.
2. The swollen root of such a plant eaten as a vegetable, typically having a reddish flesh. We love to eat pickled beets.
3. The sugar beet. It is a widely cultivated commercial crop for producing table sugar.