beetnoun [ C or U ]
uk/biːt/us/biːt/also sugar beet a plant with a thick root, often fed to animals or used to make sugar
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Crop plants & economic plants
- canola
- cash crop
- cassava
- clover
- flax
- hemp
- hop
- linseed
- manioc
- rabi
- rape
- safflower
- sisal
- subsistence crop
- sugar beet
- sugar cane
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Types of vegetable
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- All fruits and some vegetables, like sugar cane, corn, and beets, have natural sugar.
- A light, sandy soil is the best on which to grow beets to perfection, but any well-tilled garden land will raise satisfactory crops.
- Nitrogen is especially beneficial to beets.
- The beet grown from this seed contained more sugar to the square inch—or was it to the square root?—than any other kind of beet.
- They are cultivated exactly like beets.
- They found this out about beets: beets should not be transplanted.