mangelwurzel

• mangel-wurzel
• mangle-wurzel

From German Mangold (“chard”) + Wurzel (“root”).

mangelwurzel (plural mangelwurzels)

1. A root vegetable, variety of Beta vulgaris, cultivated chiefly as cattle feed.
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 11:

     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?

   • 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:

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

• (root vegetable): mangold, mangold wurzel

• beet
• chard

• mangle-wurzel