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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[G., corrupted fr.

mangoldwurzel

;

mangold

beet +

wurzel

root.]

(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

[Written also

mangold-wurzel

Noun.

The root of scarcity, a plant of the beet kind.

See also: mangelwurzel

mangel-wurzel ‎(plural mangel-wurzels)

Alternative spelling of mangelwurzel
- 1945 May, George Orwell, chapter 1, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
  
  Wheat and barley, oats and hay,
  Clover, beans, and mangel-wurzels

“mangel-wurzel” in the The New Oxford American Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2005