noun
definition
Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.
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The beet is a hardy species.
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A beetroot, a swollen root of such a plant.
Examples of beet in a Sentence
Sugar beet is extensively grown to supply the sugar factories.
It occurs in beet juice.
Berlin is a flourishing manufacturing town, and contains a beet sugar refinery, automobile, leather, furniture, shirt and collar, felt, glove, button and rubber factories.
The beet sugar, fruit and other agricultural products of the surrounding and tributary section were valued in 1906 at about $20,000,000.
Beet is chiefly grown as feeding stuff for cattle, and not for sugar.
Beet is extensively grown.
Potatoes, hemp, turnips, hops, tobacco and beet are also extensively grown, the latter, in connexion with the sugar industry, showing each year a larger return.
In cold areas start spinach and spinach beet off in pots under glass.
The city's principal manufactures are beet sugar, barrels and other cooperage products, wagons, carriages, sleighs and agricultural implements.
These studies indicate a greater removal of potash by fodder beet in practice than existing standards allow for.
Similarly, a rotary cutter has been developed to remove the flower heads of bolted weed beet growing in sugar beet crops.
July 22 nd 1869 Mr Duncan of Lavenham sugar beet factory has given five silver cups to be competed for in different classes.
Our brewer's yeast is grown on sugar beet molasses, which partially accounts for it's good taste.
Feed succulent food, eg soaked sugar beet pulp, to encourage water intake.
Three crops are involved - sugar beet, oilseed rape and fodder maize - all modified to be herbicide resistant.
In agriculture, margin was adversely impacted in wheat based animal feeds but improved in sugar beet based ruminant feeds.
Although it uses sugar beet as a case study, most of the topics will be familiar to farmers of other crops.
Crops include sugar beet, potatoes, grain, grapes, tobacco, flax, hemp and wine.
It is due to start production in early 2007 and will process sugar beet into bioethanol.
This is a lot more efficient and cost-effective than trying to kill them in conventional sugar beet or other spring crop.
The contract with British Sugar was in an instant rendered as worthless as toilet paper and the beet growers lost thousands of pounds.
Wheat, barley, oats, beans, clover and other leguminous plants, turnips, sugar beet, mange's, potatoes and grass crops have thus been experimented upon.
The constant use of chicory for coffee, and of woad for indigo, was apt to produce a reaction in favour of a humdrum peaceful policy; and yet, by a recent imperial decree, Frenchmen had the prospect of seeing the use of the new and imperfectly made beet sugar enforced from the 1st of January 1813, after which date all cane sugar was excluded as being of British origin.
In Great Britain in 1910 the cultivation of beet for sugar was being seriously undertaken in Essex, as the result of careful consideration during several years.
The list of genetically improved plants also includes potatoes, flax, rice, sugar beet, wheat, chicory and faster ripening tomatoes.
Drought is a major cause of loss of sugar beet yield in the UK.
They also get bowls of grated sugar beet soaked with warm water and other special feed.
Both viruses cause significant yield losses to the UK sugar beet crop.
For the first time, sugar beet farmers in eastern England were presented with the prospect of reform of the EU import regime.
Molassed sugar beet feed, a high energy animal feed, is also produced in quantity at Allscott.
The trials conducted in 2004 showed that plant stands of sugar beet from untreated seed increased considerably where methiocarb slug baits were used.
His skin flushed beet red and he started yelling before his anger escalated into a true homicidal rage.
Other parts of the ancient world used strawberries and beet juice to obtain a healthy glow.
Turnip and beet greens, offal, feet and heads were given to the slaves for use as food.
So cane sugar nutritional yeast is most likely nutritional yeast grown on pure cane sugar, rather than a mixture of cane sugar and (beet) molasses, or just molasses.
One cup of beet pieces has only about 60 calories, yet it offers impressive amounts of fiber and vitamins.
Thin strips of raw beet are much easier to eat than cubes or chunks.
Grated beet strips add flavor, color, and moisture to a dish.
Always drink beet juice in moderation and combine it with another fresh juice; too much beet juice can be overpowering.
Other varieties of the common Beet are misused in the garden for the sake of their dark colors, but no artistic flower gardening is possible where such vegetables out of place are used.
You can use half carrot and half beet juice to add red highlights to brown hair or to brighten up auburn shades.
Foods rich in calcium include almonds, swiss cheese, collards, sardines and salmon with bones, spinach, ice cream, kale, beet greens, cheddar cheese, molasses, oysters, milk, and broccoli.
In order to make any of the standard recipes for pickled eggs in pickled beet juice, you first need some pickled beets juice.
Some people like to peel the eggs before putting them into the jar of beet juice, but I like to leave the shells on.
The eggs not only absorb the color from the beet juice but also take some of the flavor from the marinade as well.
Annatto seed, beet, calendula petals, carrot, and parsley can all be added to basic soaps as natural colorants.
In 2010, the magazine Natural Health awarded Burt's Bees' Grapefruit & Sugar Beet Shampoo as the year's best, most natural, and healthiest shampoo for humans, as well as the environment.
For a strikingly colorful, yet simple dish, try orange and beet salad.
The cafe's signature juices include beet, carrot, ginger, lemon, apple and garlic.
Boost your vitamin intake with juices featuring such interesting mixes as kale and beet or cucumber, parsley and celery.