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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A form of common beet (Beta vulgaris) having fleshy white roots from which sugar is obtained.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. See beet.
  2. n. Any of the varieties of Beta vulgaris, the common beet, utilized for sugar manufacture. The qualities required are high sugar content, purity (relative freedom of the juice from mineral and organic substances other than sugar), and correctness of form. The beet should be of a long-conical shape, without branches, and should weigh about a pound, large sugar content and small size having been found to go together. Varieties in use yield 12 to 16 per cent. of sugar. Sugar-beets can be grown on nearly all kinds of soil, but require high fertility. The soil must, be worked deeply to permit the descent of the tap-root. The sowing is in rows, preferably very early, followed by thinning when about four leaves have been put forth. The plants are first bunched by cutting across the rows, and the bunches are then thinned by hand. Close cultivation is required.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Bot.) a variety of beet (Beta vulgaris) with very large white roots, extensively grown, esp. in Europe, for the sugar obtained from them.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. white-rooted beet grown as a source of sugar
  2. n. form of common beet having a sweet white root from which sugar is obtained

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  1. beet
  1. beetroot
  1. common beet
  1. beta vulgaris

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  1. fourmajor
  2. cotton-growing
  3. nonstarchy
  4. beet-sugar
  1. richly-wooded
  2. ball-bearing
  3. wheat-growing
  4. cruciferous
  1. paper-box
  2. grain-growing
  3. densely-populated
  4. lands
  1. still-standing
  2. densely-packed
  3. inhabitable
  4. white-marble
  1. well-peopled
  2. susceptive
  3. well-situated
  4. rivals'

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. cane sugar
  2. cossette
  3. sucrose
  4. beet-press
  5. saturater
  6. sugar
  1. aspartic acid
  2. press cake
  3. saccharose
  4. calorisator
  5. levulan
  6. raffinade
  1. ulmic
  2. rasping-machine
  3. beet-sugar
  4. bunch
  5. bunching
  6. sugar beet
  1. beet
  2. raffinose
  3. vinasse
  4. dextran
  5. block
  6. crop
  1. crown
  2. elutor
  3. lycine
  4. malonic
  5. vernin
  6. vicine

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  1. food
  1. AGRI - sugar sector
  1. sugar
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  1. crowning

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  1. sugar-beet

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  • treeseed Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.), a member of the Chenopodiaceae family, is a plant whose root contains a high concentration of sucrose. It is grown commercially for sugar.

    The sugar beet is directly related to the beetroot, chard and fodder beet, all descended by cultivation from the sea beet.

    Beet sugar accounts for 30% of the world's sugar production.
    _Wikipedia
    Feb 7, 2008

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