The root of the beet; also attrib., as in beetroot sugar. Beetrooty a. colloq., of the nature or appearance of beet-root.
1579. Langham, Gard. Health (1633), 66. Strake a little salt on a Beete roote, and put it into the fundament.
1834. Ht. Martineau, Hist. Peace (1877), III. V. xi. 405. The beet-root sugar of France supplied one-third of the national consumption.
1842. Dickens, Amer. Notes (1850), 109/1. Those who fancy slices of beet-root.
1859. All Y. Round, No. 35. 198. The smallest boy, with the whitest face, the most beetrooty nose … ever seen.
