mangel-wurzel Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun beet with a large yellowish root; grown chiefly as cattle feed
    mangold; Beta vulgaris vulgaris; mangold-wurzel.
  2. noun cultivated as feed for livestock

WordNet

Man"gel-wur`zel noun
Etymology
G., corrupted fr. mangoldwurzel; mangold beet + wurzel root.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A kind of large field beet (B. macrorhiza), used as food for cattle, -- by some considered a mere variety of the ordinary beet. See Beet. Written also mangold-wurzel.

Webster 1913