sugar beet

Noun

Meaning

A type of beet whose root contains a high concentration of sucrose.

darling; sweetheart

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

chard beet vegetable beetroot mangel-wurzel beet sugar beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris beta vulgaris rapacea var. altissima

Hypernyms

beet beetroot

Related terms

beet sugar sugarbush sugar cane sugar maple sugar bush

Examples

This book is gaudy like a gilded cauliflower which smells so bad after a good hot water soaking, like hot chocolate sweetened with sugar beet / incompatibles blended incongruously to no purpose. Peter Greenaway

About 95% of sugar beet acres in the US were planted with glyphosate-resistant seed in 2011. Source: Internet

After a brief increase sugar prices, the outlook for Jamaican sugar took a hit in 2015 when the EU began moving towards ending a cap on European sugar beet production. Source: Internet

After planting sugar beet seed, weeds emerge in fields and growers apply glyphosate to control them. Source: Internet

After this first success in Alvarado, the sugar beet industry expanded rapidly. Source: Internet

Among the vegetables, as well as artichokes, has a certain weight the production of oranges, and, before the reform of the sugar sector from the European Union, the cultivation of sugar beet. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

sugar basin sugar bean sugar bear sugar beet grower sugar beet root aphid sugar belly