sugar beet

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

Origin of sugar beet

First recorded in 1810–20

Sugar-beet acreage in the Yellowstone Valley in this State is approximately 1,800.

North Dakota |Various
He would reach the spot, with such shelter as possible, to find only a sugar-beet field, neglected and unplowed.

The Amazing Interlude |Mary Roberts Rinehart
Sugar-beet culture was tried in the years following 1890 with indifferent success until the introduction of bounties in 1901.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 6 |Various
A considerable source of artificial potassic manures is the refuse manufacture of sugar-beet, such a large industry in Germany.

Manures and the principles of manuring |Charles Morton Aikman

The sugar-beet is extensively cultivated, in spite of the great trade resulting from the cane-sugar industry of the East Indies.

Commercial Geography |Jacques W. Redway

sugar beet

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