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Mangold-wurzel

noun

Beet with a large yellowish root; grown chiefly as cattle feed. Synonyms: Beta vulgaris vulgaris, mangel-wurzel, mangold.

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... the morning he got to work, and by the end of the week the ideograph was completed. It consisted of a rising sun, two cave-bears, a walrus, seventeen shin-bones of the lesser rib-nosed baboon, a brontosaurus, three sand-eels, and a pterodactyl devouring a mangold-wurzel. It was an uncommonly neat piece of work, he considered, for one who had never attended an art-school. He was pleased with it. It would, he flattered himself, be a queer sort of girl who could stand out against that. For the first time for weeks he slept ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, January 7, 1914 • Various

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Words linked to "Mangold-wurzel" : beet, Beta vulgaris, common beet