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mangel-wurzel

mangel-wurzel is the alternative spelling of mangelwurzel.

Meaning of mangelwurzel

Noun

mangelwurzel (plural mangelwurzels)

  1. A root vegetable, variety of Beta vulgaris, cultivated chiefly as cattle feed.
    • I have not written to my beloved Amelia for these many weeks past, for what news was there to tell of the sayings and doings at Humdrum Hall, as I have christened it; and what do you care whether the turnip crop is good or bad; whether the fat pig weighed thirteen stone or fourteen; and whether the...1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 11, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC

Forms of mangel-wurzel

pluralmangel-wurzels

Questions about mangel-wurzel

What is mangel-wurzel the alternative spelling of?
Mangel-wurzel is the alternative spelling of mangelwurzel.

Words near mangel-wurzel in the dictionary

  1. mangee
  2. mangees
  3. mangel
  4. mangel beet
  5. mangel beets
  6. mangel-wurzel
  7. mangel-wurzels
  8. mangelike
  9. mangelin
  10. mangelins
  11. mangels

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