sugar beet

See also: sugarbeet

English

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Noun

sugar beet (plural sugar beets)

1. A type of beet whose root contains a high concentration of sucrose.
   • 1953 February, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes: Scottish Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 141:

     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).

2. Darling; sweetheart
   • 1996, Jack Barth, “A Fish Called Selma”, in The Simpsons, spoken by Troy McClure (Phil Hartman):

     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.

   • 2016, Marianne Evans, Woodland Hearts:

     “So is my sugar beet all tucked in?”
     “She is. Happily exhausted, too. Just like me.”

Synonyms

• Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris, Beta vulgaris rapacea var. altissima

Related terms

• beet sugar
• sugarbush, sugar bush
• sugar cane
• sugar maple

Translations

type of beet

• Arabic: شَمَنْدَر اَلسُّكَّر m (šamandar as-sukkar)

  Moroccan Arabic: شمندر m (šmandar)

• Armenian: շաքարի ճակնդեղ (šakʻari čakndeġ)
• Belarusian: цукро́вы бура́к m (cukróvy burák)
• Bulgarian: захарно цвекло n (zaharno cveklo)
• Catalan: remolatxa sucrera f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 糖用甜菜 (tángyòng tiáncài), 甜菜 (zh) (tiáncài)

• Czech: cukrová řepa f
• Danish: sukkerroe (da) c
• Dutch: suikerbiet (nl) f
• Esperanto: sukerbeto
• Faroese: sukurrót f
• Finnish: sokerijuurikas (fi), jurtti (fi)
• French: betterave sucrière (fr) f, betterave à sucre (fr) f
• Galician: remolacha azucreira (gl) f
• German: Zuckerrübe (de) f
• Greek: ζαχαρότευτλο (el) n (zacharóteftlo)
• Hungarian: cukorrépa (hu)
• Icelandic: sykurrófa (is) f
• Italian: barbabietola da zucchero (it) f
• Japanese: 甜菜 (ja) (てんさい, tensai) / テンサイ (ja) (tensai), 砂糖大根 (ja) (さとうだいこん, satōdaikon) / サトウダイコン (ja) (satōdaikon)
• Kalmyk: шикрин цуунг (şikrin tsuung)
• Korean: 사탕무 (ko) (satangmu)
• Latgalian: cukrabatviņs m
• Macedonian: шеќерна репка f (šeḱerna repka)
• Māori: pīti huka, pīti huka
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: чихрийн манжин (čixriin manžin)

  Mongolian script: ᠰᠢᠬᠢᠷ ᠦᠨ
  ᠮᠠᠨᠵᠢᠨ (sikir-ün manǰin)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sukkerbete m or f, sukkerroe m

  Nynorsk: sukkerbete m or f, sukkerroe m or f

• Polish: burak cukrowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: beterraba-sacarina f
• Romanian: sfeclă de zahăr (ro) f
• Russian: са́харная свёкла f (sáxarnaja svjókla)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шећерна репа f

  Latin: šećerna repa f

• Slovak: cukrová repa f
• Slovene: sladkorna pesa f
• Spanish: remolacha azucarera f
• Swedish: sockerbeta (sv)
• Turkish: şeker pancarı, kocabaş
• Ukrainian: цукро́вий буря́к (uk) m (cukróvyj burják)
• Vietnamese: củ cải đường (vi)
• Volapük: juegabetad (vo)
• Zazaki: dib

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