beetroot red
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.76 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A deep intense purplish red, often of a person's face when flushed with embarrassment.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A glycoside obtained from beets and used as a food dye, also known as betanin and E162.
Countable; Uncountable
adj
Of a deep intense purplish red.
Example Sentences
- "They fill your mouth with hot, spicy flavours or spiky textures, their leaves sometimes green, sometimes flushed with beetroot red."
- "Bill Nighy is not your usual film star. Gaunt and diffident, he turns beetroot red at the mention of his Man of the Year title (editor's special prize), awarded by GQ magazine and the idea of posing on the red carpets of the Cannes film festival fill him with dread."
- "The paper says that Bild “gloats” about our tendency to turn beetroot red in the sun, and “adds insult to injury” by cruelly stating that too much beer on the beach makes us weigh down the plane on the way home."
- "The roadside cafe is called Borscht, advertised with a gigantic beetroot red sign, leaving little doubt what people around here like to eat."
- "One night in 2008, Deborah Fleshman awoke in her bed to find that her legs had turned beetroot red."
Usage
Inflected Forms
beetroot reds (plural)
more beetroot red (comparative)
most beetroot red (superlative)