Mangel-wurzel

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Mangel-wurzel has 2 senses

mangel-wurzel(n = noun.plant) beta vulgaris vulgaris, mangold, mangold-wurzel - beet with a large yellowish root; grown chiefly as cattle feed; Array

is a kind of beet, beta vulgaris, common beet

mangel-wurzel(n = noun.food) Array - cultivated as feed for livestock; Array

CIDE DICTIONARY

Mangel-wurzel, n. [G., corrupted fr. mangoldwurzel; mangold beet + wurzel root.].

A kind of large field beet (Beta macrorhiza), used as food for cattle, -- by some considered a mere variety of the ordinary beet. See Beet. [1913 Webster]

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