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SUGAR BEET

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

White-rooted beet grown as a source of sugar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("sugar beet" is a kind of...):

beet; beetroot (round red root vegetable)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("sugar beet" is a kind of...):

beet; Beta vulgaris; common beet (biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop)

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