mangelwurzel

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A root vegetable, variety of Beta vulgaris, cultivated chiefly as cattle feed.
    — 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?

词形变化

mangelwurzels plural mangel-wurzel alternative mangle-wurzel alternative

词源

From German Mangold (“chard”) + Wurzel (“root”), with the first part reinterpreted as Mangel, whence the archaic English name "root of scarcity".
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