Meaning of mangelwurzel | Babel Free

Definitions

A root vegetable, variety of Beta vulgaris, cultivated chiefly as cattle feed.

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“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?”

“Wheat and barley, oats and hay, Clover, beans, and mangel-wurzels”

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