Sugar Beet Definition

noun

A variety or cultivar of the common beet (Beta vulgaris) having a root with white flesh and a high sugar content, grown commercially as a source of sugar: also writtensugarbeet.

Webster's New World
One of these roots.
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Other Word Forms of Sugar Beet

Noun

Singular:
sugar beet
Plural:
sugar-beets

Sugar Beet Sentence Examples

  • A large sugar-beet industry has also sprung up here in modern times.

  • The climate is semi-tropical, and the vega or plain of Motril has been found peculiarly adapted for the culture of sugar-cane and sugar-beet.

  • Of all the cane grown, an amount between one-sixth and one-quarter - and that the best - must be reserved for seed every other year, and this is a great handicap to the state in competing with other cane regions and with the sugar beet.

  • The competition of the sugar-beet has been felt severely.

  • Other articles of export are chemicals, dyeing and tanning stuffs, tobacco, sugar-beet and kitchen-salt.

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Words Starting With

SSUSUG

Words Ending With

TETEET

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