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mangel-wurzel
[ mang-guhl-wur-zuhl ]
noun
, Chiefly British.
- a variety of the beet Beta vulgaris, cultivated as food for livestock.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mangel-wurzel1
1770–80; < German, variant of Mangoldwurzel ( Mangold beet + Wurzel root; wort 2 )
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Example Sentences
The name of the field beet is, in the language of the unlearned, mangel-wurzel, "the root of poverty."
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The Red Beet, as well as the Mangel-wurzel, we owe to this humble seaside plant.
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We had him from the work'us when he was seven, to chop mangel wurzel, and here he's been ever since, nigh twelve year.
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The charred mangel-wurzel leaves are to be used in precisely the same way as tea.
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But mix the potatoes with juice of mangel wurzel, and they make very good food for hogs of all ages.
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