Definition of "beet-sugar" []

• Same as beetroot sugar, under beet-root. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "When it became clear that math and the physical sciences were her forte, she took chemistry lessons from a chemist in the beet-sugar factory."
• "Her charges were the children of an agriculturist who ran a beet-sugar factory in a village 150 kilometers north of Warsaw."
• "The beet-sugar industry took off during the Napoleonic Wars when France was cut off from Caribbean sugar."