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mangelwurzel

mangelwurzel noun: a root vegetable, variety of Beta vulgaris, cultivated chiefly as cattle feed.

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
    • Wheat and barley, oats and hay,
      Clover, beans, and mangel-wurzels1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC

mangelwurzel meaning in Bengali

mangelwurzel in Bengali

এক জাতের বীট

Synonyms of mangelwurzel

Forms of mangelwurzel

pluralmangelwurzels
alternative formmangel-wurzel
alternative formmangle-wurzel

Origin of mangelwurzel

From German Mangold (“chard”) + Wurzel (“root”), with the first part reinterpreted as Mangel, whence the archaic English name "root of scarcity".

Questions about mangelwurzel

What does mangelwurzel mean?
Mangelwurzel means a root vegetable, variety of Beta vulgaris, cultivated chiefly as cattle feed.
What is mangelwurzel in Bengali?
Mangelwurzel in Bengali is এক জাতের বীট. See Mangelwurzel meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is mangelwurzel?
Mangelwurzel is a noun.
What is the plural of mangelwurzel?
The plural of mangelwurzel is mangelwurzels.

Words near mangelwurzel in the dictionary

  1. mangel-wurzels
  2. mangelike
  3. mangelin
  4. mangelins
  5. mangels
  6. mangelwurzel
  7. mangelwurzels
  8. mangemange
  9. mangenue
  10. mangenues
  11. manger

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