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man⋅gel-wur⋅zel

  [mang-guhl-wur-zuhl]
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–noun Chiefly British.
a variety of the beet Beta vulgaris, cultivated as food for livestock.
Also, mangold-wurzel.
Also called mangel, mangold.

Origin:
1770–80; < G, var. of Mangoldwurzel (Mangold beet + Wurzel root; cf. wort 2 )
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man·gel-wur·zel   (māng'gəl-wûr'zəl)   
n.  A variety of the common beet having a large yellowish root, used chiefly as cattle feed.

[German Mangelwurzel, alteration (influenced by Mangel, scarcity) of Mangoldwurzel : Mangold, beet (from Middle High German mānegolt) + Wurzel, root; see wrād- in Indo-European roots.]
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