different between beet vs betalain

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?t, IPA^(key): /bi?t/
• Homophone: beat
• Rhymes: -i?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English bete, from Old English bete, from Latin beta. Most likely of Celtic etymology.

Noun

beet (plural beets)

1. Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.

   The beet is a hardy species.

   There are beets growing over these.

2. A beetroot, a swollen root of such a plant.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• chard
• mangelwurzel
• orach
• spinach

References

• beet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• beets on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Beta vulgaris on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Beta on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• beet at University of Melbourne "Sorting plant names"

Etymology 2

From Old English b?tan.

Alternative forms

• bete

Verb

beet

1. (transitive, obsolete, dialect) To improve; to mend.
2. (transitive, obsolete, dialect) To kindle a fire.
3. (transitive, obsolete, dialect) To rouse.

Anagrams

• bete

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch beet, variant of biet, from Middle Dutch bete, from Latin b?ta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi??t/, [bi?t]

Noun

beet (plural bete)

1. beetroot

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be?t/
• Hyphenation: beet
• Rhymes: -e?t

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch b?te, from Old Dutch *biti, from Proto-Germanic *bitiz.

Noun

beet m (plural beten, diminutive beetje n)

1. bite

Derived terms

• beetgaar
• beethebben
• beetnemen
• beetpakken

Related terms

• bijten

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch bete, from Latin b?ta.

Noun

beet f (plural beten, diminutive beetje n)

1. Alternative form of biet.

Derived terms

• beetwortel

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

beet

1. singular past indicative of bijten

Anagrams

• bete

Finnish

Noun

beet

1. nominative plural of bee

Latin

Verb

beet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of be?

Norman

Alternative forms

• baête (continental Normandy)
• bête (Jersey, Guernsey)

Etymology

From Old French beste, from Latin b?stia.

Noun

beet f (plural beets)

1. (Sark) animal

English

Etymology

Coined to describe the pigments as derivatives from betalamic acid, from Latin b?ta (“beet”), +? -in.

Noun

betalain (plural betalains)

1. A class of red and yellow indole-derived water-soluble pigments found in beets and other plants of the Caryophyllales and used commercially as coloring agents.
   • 1992 — Frank B. Salisbury & Cleon W. Ross, Plant Physiology, 4th ed., p. 325.

     Neither the red betacyanins nor the other kind of betalain pigments, the yellow betaxanthins, are at all structurally related to the anthocyanins, and anthocyanins and betalains do not occur together in the same plant.

   • 2004 — Luisa Tesoriere, Mario Allegra, Daniela Butera, & Maria A. Livrea. "Absorption, excretion, and distribution of dietary anioxidant betalains in LDLs: potential health effects of betalains in humans." American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 80: 941-945.

     Betalains, known for a long time as safe colorants for food or other industrial purposes, are phytochemicals that were recently classified as antioxidants.

Hyponyms

• (class of red and yellow pigments): betacyanin, betaxanthin

Translations

Anagrams

• Tealiban