mangel-wurzel

[ mang-guh l-wur-zuh l ]

/ ˈmæŋ gəlˈwɜr zəl /

a variety of the beet Beta vulgaris, cultivated as food for livestock.

Also mangold-wurzel.

Also called man·gel, mangold.

Origin of mangel-wurzel

1770–80; < German, variant of Mangoldwurzel ( Mangold beet + Wurzel root; cf. wort²)

The oats were very heavy, and the root crops looked well, especially a field of mangel-wurzel.

A Walk from London to John O'Groat's |Elihu Burritt
Besides beetroot for sugar, clover and sainfoin are grown, little or no barley, and neither turnips nor mangel-wurzel.

In the Heart of Vosges |Matilda Betham-Edwards
He had cabbage and mangel-wurzel plants to put in their stead.

Rural Rides |William Cobbett
Mangel-wurzel, mang′gl-wur′zl, n. a plant of the beet kind cultivated as food for cattle.

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) |Various

He still calls the beet a beet-root and the rutabaga a mangel-wurzel.

The American Language |Henry L. Mencken