sugar beet

noun

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

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Examples of sugar beet in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web While Ouai cites the active ingredients in the gloss as hyaluronic acid, sugar beets, panthenol, and rice water, cosmetic chemist Ginger King explained to Allure that the force behind the formula is a combination of silicones. Annie Blackman, Allure, 25 Jan. 2024 But what looks great from America’s sugar beet fields seems far less positive in the nation’s grocery aisles. Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2023 To have so many deaths in that season is unusual, and is largely to do with changes in pesticide use accompanying a shift to rapeseed farming from buckwheat and sugar beet, said Alexey Nikolenko, a bee researcher at the Bashkortostan branch of the Russian Academy of Science. Ilya Khrennikov, Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2020 The Snake River has formed the border of Oregon and Idaho for more than a century and a half, slicing through fields of onions, sugar beets and wheat that roll out for miles through Treasure Valley. Scott Wilson, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2023 Officials in Warren, Minn., partly surrounded by sugar beet fields, had to physically lower the pump at the town’s well by 63 feet in order to keep providing drinking water to more than 1,500 residents, including those in a hospital and nursing home. Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2023 Macdonald had a mental image of an American diner in the middle of a sugar beet field and a premise about the military weaponizing memories. Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023 Alternatives to aspartame include other artificial sweeteners such as saccharin and sucralose, sugar alcohols like sorbitol and xylitol, naturally derived sugar-free sweeteners like Stevia and simple sugars, such as those in sugar cane, sugar beets and honey. Jiangang Chen, The Conversation, 21 July 2023 Some also work in potatoes, sugar beets or peanuts. Steven Savage, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1817, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of sugar beet was in 1817

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“Sugar beet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sugar%20beet. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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sugar beet

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