red beets
Burgundy garden vegetables
Red beets are beets—the root vegetable with deep crimson flesh that bleeds its color onto everything it touches.
The qualifier distinguishes them from golden beets or other varieties, though in American English, "beets" without modification usually means the red kind.
She roasted red beets and goat cheese for the salad.
- crimsonsDark red hues
- beetrootEdible crimson root vegetable
- taprootMain descending root
- tuberousHaving fleshy root swellings
- borschtBeetroot-based Slavic soup
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