mangel-wurzel | |
mangel-wurzels |
mangel-wurzel | (n) beet with a large yellowish root; grown chiefly as cattle feed, Syn. Beta vulgaris vulgaris, mangold, mangold-wurzel |
mangel-wurzel | (n) cultivated as feed for livestock |
Mangel-wurzel | n. [ 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 Beet. [ 1913 Webster ] |