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SUGAR BEET
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
White-rooted beet grown as a source of sugar
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("sugar beet" is a kind of...):
beet; beetroot (round red root vegetable)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Form of the common beet having a sweet white root from which sugar is obtained
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sugar beet" is a kind of...):
beet; Beta vulgaris; common beet (biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop)