mangelwurzel
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English
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Etymology
From German Mangold (“chard”) + Wurzel (“root”), with the first part reinterpreted as Mangel, whence the archaic English name "root of scarcity".
Noun
mangelwurzel (plural mangelwurzels)
- A root vegetable, variety of Beta vulgaris, cultivated chiefly as cattle feed.
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 11, in Vanity Fair , London: Bradbury and Evans , published 1848, →OCLC:
- 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
Synonyms
- (root vegetable): mangold, mangold wurzel, root of scarcity (archaic)
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Translations
root vegetable
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