Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A variety of the common beet having a large yellowish root, used chiefly as cattle feed.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A variety of beet, Beta vulgaris macrorhiza, producing a larger and coarser root than the garden-beet, which is extensively cultivated as food for cattle.
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of mangelwurzel.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. cultivated as feed for livestock
- n. beet with a large yellowish root; grown chiefly as cattle feed
Etymologies
- German Mangelwurzel, alteration (influenced by Mangel, scarcity) of Mangoldwurzel : Mangold, beet (from Middle High German mānegolt) + Wurzel, root. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In Europe there is grown widely a large beet they call the mangel-wurzel.”
“Certainly there is mangel-wurzel in the music of Wagner, although it is another composer whose name begins, B-e-e-t --.”
“Is there a position in the Kama Sutra that we have not mastered, a recipe for mangel-wurzel that our cook pot hasn't memorized?”
“Another column of smoke erupted from the tank car of compressed mangel-wurzel, delaying any hopes the neighbors might have had of returning to their homes.”
“Perhaps it is mangel-wurzel that we see in Rasputin.”
“The cigar looked like some kind of vegetable, a root crop, related, perhaps, to the mangel-wurzel.”
“They dined on Indian corn, mangel-wurzel, fish scraps and whatever else was fed them, including the pith of the palm and tree fern.”
“He skirts their fires, stealthy - All he wants is a handful of greens here, a carrot or mangel-wurzel there, just to keep him going.”
“I am of a sensitive nature, and it cut me to the heart to see cold winds nipping the fruit and trees, the flood of rain beating down the corn, the oats, and the mangel-wurzel.”
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 17, 1891
“Each of the giraffes eats daily eighteen pounds of clover hay, and the same quantity of a mixed vegetable diet, consisting of turnips, mangel-wurzel, carrots, barley, and split beans; in spring they have green tares and clover, and are exceedingly fond of onions.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mangel-wurzel’.
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Cattle
cattle, cow, beef, steer, heifer, calf, bull, cattle call, Black Angus, Hereford, Holstein, Dwarf Lulu and 402 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Beets
No really, it's a list entirely devoted to beets.
beet, beets, sugar beet, beetroot, beetroots, spinach beet, sea beet, sea-beet, mangel-wurzel, mangelwurzel, Sicilian beet, leaf beet and 35 more...
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bilby's Words
pandemic, whirl, guffaw, ethereal, feisty, dunt, ephemeral, pule, flipergebet, prink, maunder, gammon and 1023 more...
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O! Timballo
for the same
tea-poy, pooking fork, ait, eyot, quodlibet, milk leg, tussie-mussie, calash, gueules, caitiff, bindery, demi-rep and 224 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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sciencey nature
hibernaculum, mangel-wurzel, bogbean, chromatic, stochastic, palimpsest
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has a neat sound
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never hear enough of
peregrinate, mangel-wurzel, gas music from Ju..., beezer, defenestration, potrzebie
Tweets
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sarra Also mangold-wurzel or mangoldwurzel, among others. I can't help thinking of hurdy-gurdies though. Could one construct one from the other? Apr 21, 2008