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🥕 A fodder beet 🥬 A leafy vegetable
mangold

mangold

9.9
A type of beet with a large yellow root grown to feed cattle
  • noun
  • /ˈmæŋɡoʊld/
  • Archaic
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  • Unlike sugar beets, mangold is rarely used for human consumption.

Examples

  • After the harvest, piles of mangold were stored in the barn.

  • The farmer harvested a large mangold yesterday.

  • The farmer grew mangold in large fields to feed his cattle through the winter.

  • Many mangolds are used as animal feed in winter.

  • Farmers often grow mangold as nutritious fodder for their cattle.

  • The livestock in the region thrive on mangold during the winter months.

  • Many cattle ranchers rely on mangold to ensure their herds have enough food.

Synonyms

mangold-wurzel
vsmangold
  • Archaic
9.9

A large yellow root beet grown to feed cattle

is the common everyday name rather than this alternate form
Beta vulgaris vulgaris
vsmangold
  • Specialized
9.8

A beet plant that farmers grow for cattle because it has a large yellow root

is the everyday crop name rather than a scientific term
mangel-wurzel
vsmangold
  • Archaic
9.9

A large beet grown to feed farm animals

is the same idea but uses the shorter common expression
mangel
vsmangold
  • Archaic
9.1

A large root vegetable grown to feed farm animals

is more specific about yellowish root and cattle fodder use

Compounds

mangold-wurzel
  • Archaic
9.9

A large yellow root beet grown to feed cattle

Surface Forms

mangold singular
mangolds plural

Etymology

Mangold comes from the German name Mangold and the fuller word mangelwurzel, where wurzel means 'root'. Farmers used the big 'root' beet as food for animals, so mangold can mean a large beet grown mainly as cattle fodder.