mangel

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Theoretically an excessive development of the leaves of the mangel may be inimical to the growth of the root.

From The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Cameron, Charles Alexander, Sir

There are big coarse members of the beet and cabbage families called the mangel wurzel and ruta baga.

From The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. by Shaw, Ellen Eddy

Strange, perhaps Oliver Cromwell is now a mangel wurzel, and poor King Charles the First an apple tree!

From She and I, Volume 1 by Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)

The word is in German mangel wurzel, root of scarcity.

From Notes and Queries, Number 179, April 2, 1853. A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George

Of the different varieties of the mangel the long yellow appears to be the most nutritious, and the long red the least so.

From The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Cameron, Charles Alexander, Sir