Meanings
plural sugar beets
- A type of beet whose root contains a high concentration of sucrose.
It was heading a freight train, loaded mainly with sugar beet, en route from the country area of Angus to the beet factory at Cupar (Fife).
1953 February, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes: Scottish Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 141Synonyms: Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris, Beta vulgaris rapacea var. altissima
- Darling; sweetheart
“So is my sugar beet all tucked in?” “She is. Happily exhausted, too. Just like me.”
2016, Marianne Evans, Woodland Hearts1 more example
I just want to say I wouldn't be here without the support of a very special lady- my always outrageous fiancée, Selma. Take a bow, sugar beet.
1996, Jack Barth, “A Fish Called Selma”, in The Simpsons, spoken by Troy McClure (Phil Hartman)
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA type of beet whose root contains a high concentration of sucrose.
Translations
Arabic شَمَنْدَر اَلسُّكَّر
- شَمَنْدَر اَلسُّكَّر (šamandar as-sukkar)type of beet
Bulgarian захарно цвекло
- захарно цвекло (zaharno cveklo)type of beet
Catalan remolatxa sucrera
- remolatxa sucreratype of beet
Chinese Mandarin 糖用甜菜, 甜菜
- 糖用甜菜 (tángyòng tiáncài)type of beet
- 甜菜 (tiáncài)type of beet
Czech cukrová řepa
- cukrová řepatype of beet
Danish sukkerroe
- sukkerroetype of beet
Dutch suikerbiet
- suikerbiettype of beet
Esperanto sukerbeto
- sukerbetotype of beet
Finnish sokerijuurikas, jurtti
- sokerijuurikastype of beet
- jurttitype of beet
French betterave sucrière, betterave à sucre
- betterave sucrièretype of beet
- betterave à sucretype of beet
German Zuckerrübe
- Zuckerrübetype of beet
Greek ζαχαρότευτλο
- ζαχαρότευτλο (zacharóteftlo)type of beet
Hungarian cukorrépa
- cukorrépatype of beet
Icelandic sykurrófa
- sykurrófatype of beet
Italian barbabietola da zucchero
- barbabietola da zuccherotype of beet
Japanese 甜菜, テンサイ
- 甜菜 (tensai)type of beet
- テンサイ (tensai)type of beet
- 砂糖大根 (satōdaikon)type of beet
- サトウダイコン (satōdaikon)type of beet
Korean 사탕무
- 사탕무 (satangmu)type of beet
Māori pīti huka
- pīti hukatype of beet
Norwegian Bokmål sukkerbete, sukkerroe
- sukkerbetetype of beet
- sukkerroetype of beet
Polish burak cukrowy
- burak cukrowytype of beet
Portuguese beterraba-sacarina
- beterraba-sacarinatype of beet
Romanian sfeclă de zahăr
- sfeclă de zahărtype of beet
Russian са́харная свёкла
- са́харная свёкла (sáxarnaja svjókla)type of beet
Slovak cukrová repa
- cukrová repatype of beet
Spanish remolacha azucarera
- remolacha azucareratype of beet
Swedish sockerbeta
- sockerbetatype of beet
Turkish şeker pancarı, kocabaş
- şeker pancarıtype of beet
- kocabaştype of beet
Ukrainian цукро́вий буря́к
- цукро́вий буря́к (cukróvyj burják)type of beet
Vietnamese củ cải đường
- củ cải đườngtype of beet
Cite this entry
sugar beet. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sugar%20beet
“sugar beet.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sugar%20beet. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sugar beet,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sugar%20beet.
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