sugar beet

noun

|Updated on: 10 Jul 2018

Definition of sugar beet

: a white-rooted beet grown for the sugar in its roots

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Recent Examples of sugar beet from the Web

Orange orchards and sugar beets from Santa Ana area to Costa Mesa.

— shelby grad, latimes.com, "Essential California: Green card in wallet, he's facing deportation," 29 June 2018
As part of the federal safety net for farmers, the government also provides guaranteed loans for those who process sugar beets and sugar cane.

— kristina peterson and heather haddon, WSJ, "Conservatives See Farm Bill’s Sugar Program as Too Sweet," 16 May 2018
Best Beet Varieties Supersweet + White: Albina Vereduna, a close cousin of the sugar beet, contains twice as much sugar as red beets.

— the editors of organic life, Good Housekeeping, "How (And Why) To Grow And Eat More Beets," 18 Apr. 2017
For example, the sugar beets that are fully genetically modified are generally used to produce sugar materials with nothing resembling plant in them.

— john timmer, Ars Technica, "USDA wants public comments on its plan to label GMO foods," 9 May 2018
On a windy morning at a track near Paris this month, Audi AG started testing gasoline blended with 34 percent of a biofuel produced from sugar beet waste in one of its classic A4 sedans.

— Bloomberg.com, "Your Regular Audi Could Run on Straw Soon," 17 Apr. 2018
These non-insect arthropods are usually detritivores (feed on decaying plant material), but can and do sometimes feed on vegetables, particularly root vegetables like carrots and sugar beets.

— OregonLive.com, "Help! My tomatoes are dying: Ask an expert," 31 Mar. 2018
Johnston said Canadians want to be neighborly but worry that unpredictable policy in Washington will keep manifesting itself in migrant flows through their sugar beet and wheat fields.

— tim craig, Anchorage Daily News, "The perilous path to Canada for migrants," 17 Dec. 2017
At its far end is Charles de Gaulle airport, a sprawling avant-garde mess that touched down on the fields of sugar beet and tulips next to the village of Roissy in 1974.

— The Economist, "Take the B trainA day crossing Paris by train," 16 Dec. 2017

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