Definitions for mangel-wurzel

mangel-wurzel man·gel-wur·zel

Spelling: [mang-guh l-wur-zuh l]
IPA: /ˈmæŋ gəlˈwɜr zəl/

Mangel-Wurzel is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 630 anagrams from letters in mangel-wurzel (-aeegllmnruwz).

Definitions for mangel-wurzel

noun

  1. a variety of the beet Beta vulgaris, cultivated as food for livestock.

Origin of mangel-wurzel

1770-80; German, variant of Mangoldwurzel (Mangold beet + Wurzel root; cf. wort2)

Examples for mangel-wurzel

They have begun already; and it is curious that they have begun on the mangel-wurzel roots.

This mixture is made up of equal proportions of dried cubes of potatoes, carrots, cassava, and mangel-wurzel.

He still calls the beet a beet-root and the rutabaga a mangel-wurzel.

Of the mangel-wurzel (greens and all) he has not less than twenty tons to the acre.

The maggot, or larvæ, here described is that of a fly called the Anthomyia (Pegomyia) betæ, mangel-wurzel fly.

Of beets, with mangel-wurzel, we have almost as great a variety; so also of carrots.

His neighbour had, however, got a fine field of mangel-wurzel.

Besides beetroot for sugar, clover and sainfoin are grown, little or no barley, and neither turnips nor mangel-wurzel.

The Red Beet, as well as the mangel-wurzel, we owe to this humble seaside plant.

He had cabbage and mangel-wurzel plants to put in their stead.

Word Value for mangel-wurzel
Scrable

9

Words with friends

13

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