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mangel-wurzel
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 is a kind of beet, beetroot
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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