sugar beet

noun

various cultivars of a beet, Beta vulgaris, of the amaranth family, having a white root, cultivated for the sugar it yields.

sugar beet

a variety of the plant Beta vulgaris that is cultivated for its white roots from which sugar is obtained Compare sugar cane

First recorded in 1810–20

As one weeder put it: "Poor man make no money, make plenty children—plenty children good for sugar-beet business."

He it was who in creating the sugar beet laid the foundation for one of the chief industries of our time.

It occurs in many plants especially in the sugar cane and sugar beet.

Bordering the sand-barrens is a belt of land that produces grain and the sugar-beet.

A considerable source of artificial potassic manures is the refuse manufacture of sugar-beet, such a large industry in Germany.

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