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mangle-wurzel

mangle-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 mangle-wurzel

pluralmangle-wurzels

Questions about mangle-wurzel

What is mangle-wurzel the alternative spelling of?
Mangle-wurzel is the alternative spelling of mangelwurzel.

Words near mangle-wurzel in the dictionary

  1. Mangiones
  2. Mangkali
  3. mangkono
  4. Manglay
  5. mangle
  6. mangle-wurzel
  7. mangle-wurzels
  8. mangled
  9. mangleman
  10. manglemen
  11. manglement

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