Phrase guide

sugar beet

noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

A type of beet whose root contains a high concentration of sucrose.

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2

noun

Meaning 2

Darling; sweetheart

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3

noun

Meaning 3

white-rooted beet grown as a source of sugar

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Broader terms: beet, beetroot

4

noun

Meaning 4

form of the common beet having a sweet white root from which sugar is obtained

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Broader terms: beet, common beet, Beta vulgaris

History

Etymology

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Across languages

Translations

54 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: شَمَنْدَر اَلسُّكَّر (šamandar as-sukkar) — type of beet
  • Arabic: شمندر (šmandar) — type of beet
  • Armenian: շաքարի ճակնդեղ (šakʻari čakndeġ) — type of beet
  • Belarusian: цукро́вы бура́к (cukróvy burák) — type of beet
  • Bulgarian: захарно цвекло (zaharno cveklo) — type of beet
  • Catalan: remolatxa sucrera — type of beet
  • Chinese Mandarin: 糖用甜菜 (tángyòng tiáncài) — type of beet
  • Chinese Mandarin: 甜菜 (tiáncài) — type of beet
  • Czech: cukrová řepa — type of beet
  • Danish: sukkerroe — type of beet
  • Dutch: suikerbiet — type of beet
  • Esperanto: sukerbeto — type of beet
  • Faroese: sukurrót — type of beet
  • Finnish: sokerijuurikas — type of beet
  • Finnish: jurtti — type of beet
  • French: betterave sucrière — type of beet
  • French: betterave à sucre — type of beet
  • Galician: remolacha azucreira — type of beet
  • German: Zuckerrübe — type of beet
  • Greek: ζαχαρότευτλο (zacharóteftlo) — type of beet
  • Hungarian: cukorrépa — type of beet
  • Icelandic: sykurrófa — type of beet
  • Italian: barbabietola da zucchero — type of beet
  • Japanese: 甜菜 (tensai) — type of beet
  • Japanese: テンサイ (tensai) — type of beet
  • Japanese: 砂糖大根 (satōdaikon) — type of beet
  • Japanese: サトウダイコン (satōdaikon) — type of beet
  • Kalmyk: шикрин цуунг (şikrin tsuung) — type of beet
  • Korean: 사탕무 (satangmu) — type of beet
  • Latgalian: cukrabatviņs — type of beet
  • Macedonian: шеќерна репка (šeḱerna repka) — type of beet
  • Māori: pīti huka — type of beet
  • Mongolian: чихрийн манжин (čixriin manžin) — type of beet
  • Mongolian: ᠰᠢᠬᠢᠷ ᠦᠨ ᠮᠠᠨᠵᠢᠨ (sikir-ün manǰin) — type of beet
  • Norwegian Bokmål: sukkerbete — type of beet
  • Norwegian Bokmål: sukkerroe — type of beet
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: sukkerbete — type of beet
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: sukkerroe — type of beet
  • Polish: burak cukrowy — type of beet
  • Portuguese: beterraba-sacarina — type of beet
  • Romanian: sfeclă de zahăr — type of beet
  • Russian: са́харная свёкла (sáxarnaja svjókla) — type of beet
  • Serbo-Croatian: шећерна репа — type of beet
  • Serbo-Croatian: šećerna repa — type of beet
  • Slovak: cukrová repa — type of beet
  • Slovene: sladkorna pesa — type of beet
  • Spanish: remolacha azucarera — type of beet
  • Swedish: sockerbeta — type of beet
  • Turkish: şeker pancarı — type of beet
  • Turkish: kocabaş — type of beet
  • Ukrainian: цукро́вий буря́к (cukróvyj burják) — type of beet
  • Vietnamese: củ cải đường — type of beet
  • Volapük: juegabetad — type of beet
  • Zazaki: dib — type of beet