甜菜 — meaning in English

English meaning

• beet noun A plant grown for its edible root, often deep red, or that root used as a vegetable.
• beetroot noun The deep-red edible root of the beet plant.
• redneck noun An informal, often disparaging term for a poor, working-class rural person, especially from the southern United States, sometimes implying narrow-mindedness.

Senses

甜菜 is used for these senses in English:

• beet Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.
• redneck (slang, US, usually, pejorative, offensive, ethnic slur) A poor, rural, usually white, person from the Southern United States or parts of the Midwest and Northeast, especially one whose beliefs are seen as unsophisticated and backward; sometimes with additional connotations of being bigoted.
• sugar beet A type of beet whose root contains a high concentration of sucrose.

beetroot — full definition

1. noun The deep-red edible root of the beet plant.
2. verb To turn bright red, especially in the face from embarrassment.