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Noun: sugar beet  shû-gur beet
  1. Form of the common beet having a sweet white root from which sugar is obtained
    "Farmers rotated their crops between wheat and sugar beet"

Derived forms: sugar beets

Type of: beet, Beta vulgaris, common beet

Encyclopedia: Sugar beet