sugar beet

sugar beet (plural sugar beets)

1. A type of beet whose root contains a high concentration of sucrose.
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

• sugar cane
• sugar maple

• beet sugar