sugar beet

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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.”

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

• beet sugar