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mangelwurzel

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Noun — A root vegetable, a variety of Beta vulgaris, grown mainly as feed for cattle.

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Formed from German Mangold (“chard”) and Wurzel (“root”), with the first part later reinterpreted as Mangel, which gave rise to the archaic English name "root of scarcity".

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