Beet

[AS.] A biennial vegetable plant which Ben'zene. OE COMMON THINGS 19 for feeding stock, and the white in making sugar. Beet-root sugar is equal to that made from the cane, and is made in immense quantities in Europe, where more than 4,000,000 tons are produced annually. This industry has been introduced into the United States, but has as yet made no great progre . [AS.] Any insect of the order Coleoptera (or wings in a sheath), having four wings, the outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when folded up, and defending them from hard substances underground. The black beetle is the common large cockroach. The curculio or weevil lives on fruit or grains tiger; beetles are striped carrion-beetles live on dead; animals; the Spanish-fly is a bright-green beetle; stag beetles have long jaws. The turnip-fly or flea-beetle and click-beetle are destructive to crops. There are many you sands of different species of coleoptera, and they vary very much iu size and appearance. [From Michael Begon, a botanist.] A species of plants grown as ornamental plants. The leaves are curiously one-sided and often exhibit brilliant colors. [AS.] A hollow metallic ve el shaped like a cup, with a wide mouth containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a musical sound when struck. Bells are made of various metals, but the best are made of an alloy of copper and tin. The large bell of Moscow is 19 feet 3 inches high; the bell of Kioto, Japan, is 24 feet high. [Bot. name Atropa belladonna.]. A herbaceous plant with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. Both plant and fruit are poisonous, and used as powerful medicinal agents. Also called nightshade. [AS.] A flat, round, double utensil, which by the rise and fall of the top part draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube. Useful for blowing fires, ventilating mines, and filling the pipes of an organ and some other musical instruments with wind. [Arab, from benzoin.'] A compound of carbon and hydrogen discovered by Faraday. It occurs amongst the products of the distillation of many organic bodies, but its chief source is 595