sugar beet

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.
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

Coordinate terms

• beet sugar

Related terms

• sugar cane
• sugar maple

Translations

type of beet

Arabic: شَمَنْدَر اَلسُّكَّر‎ m (šamandar as-sukkar) Armenian: շաքարի ճակնդեղ (šakʿari čakndeł) 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 f Italian: barbabietola da zucchero (it) f Japanese: 甜菜 (ja) (てんさい, tensai) / テンサイ (tensai), 砂糖大根 (さとうだいこん, satōdaikon) / サトウダイコン (satōdaikon) Kalmyk: шикрин цуунг (shikrin tsuung) Korean: 사탕무 (ko) (satangmu) Latgalian: cukrabatviņs m Macedonian: шеќерна репка f (šeḱerna repka) Maori: pīti huka, pīti huka 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 Roman: šećerna repa f Slovak: cukrová repa f Slovene: sladkorna pesa f Spanish: remolacha azucarera f Swedish: sockerbeta (sv) Ukrainian: цукро́вий буря́к (uk) m (cukróvyj burják) Vietnamese: củ cải đường Volapük: juegabetad (vo) Zazaki: dib

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