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Revision as of 21:21, 15 April 2019
See also: mangel-wurzel
English
Alternative forms
Noun
mangelwurzel (plural mangelwurzels)
- A root vegetable, variety of Beta vulgaris, cultivated chiefly as cattle feed.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 11:
- 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 beasts thrive well upon mangelwurzel?
- 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
- Wheat and barley, oats and hay,
Clover, beans, and mangel-wurzels
- Wheat and barley, oats and hay,
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 11:
Synonyms
- (root vegetable): mangold, mangold wurzel
Coordinate terms
Translations
a root vegetable
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