sugar beet

1. 1.

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

   Broaderbeet
2. 2.

   white-rooted beet grown as a source of sugar

   Broaderbeet

Questions about sugar beet

What does sugar beet mean?

sugar beet means "form of the common beet having a sweet white root from which sugar is obtained". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is sugar beet a common word?

sugar beet is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.