: a white-rooted beet grown for the sugar in its roots
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Abatti Farms has thousands of acres of crops, including melons, broccoli, sugar beets and alfalfa, which Michael said in a 2017 legal filing were worth more than $10 million a year.—Shawn Raymundo, AZCentral.com, 25 Dec. 2025 In animals, sugar beet molasses helped reduce homocysteine levels.—Brittany Lubeck, Verywell Health, 12 Nov. 2025 There is a distinct before and after the night of Nov. 1, 1955, when a United Airlines flight exploded over a sugar beet field near Longmont, killing all 44 people on board in one of the deadliest mass murders in Colorado history.—Katie Langford, Denver Post, 2 Nov. 2025 Cane and beets Beet sugar comes from the root of the sugar beet plant, which grows in temperate climates.—Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 21 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sugar beet
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