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mangel-wurzel

[mang-guh l-wur-zuh l]

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noun Chiefly British.

a variety of the beet Beta vulgaris, cultivated as food for livestock.

Also mangold-wurzel.

Origin of mangel-wurzel

1770–80; < German, variant of Mangoldwurzel (Mangold beet + Wurzel root; cf. wort²)

Also called man·gel, mangold.

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

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Historical Examples of mangel-wurzel

Of beets, with mangel-wurzel, we have almost as great a variety; so also of carrots.
Science and Practice in Farm Cultivation
James Buckman
His neighbour had, however, got a fine field of mangel-wurzel.
An Old English Home
S. Baring-Gould
He still calls the beet a beet-root and the rutabaga a mangel-wurzel.
The American Language
Henry L. Mencken
He had cabbage and mangel-wurzel plants to put in their stead.
Rural Rides
William Cobbett
Of the mangel-wurzel (greens and all) he has not less than twenty tons to the acre.
Rural Rides
William Cobbett