mangold

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

Return to the vegetable existence he had led among the agricultural journals with the life-size mangold wurzels, before this new attraction came into his life—no! — The Forsyte Saga - Complete, John Galsworthy
As we wandered toward some sheds, in a field of mangolds, Sir Lionel made us look up at a big hill, and said, "There was a Roman camp there. — Set in Silver, C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
Then he looked round for the people of the island: but instead of men, women, and children, he found nothing but turnips and radishes, beet and mangold wurzel, without a single green leaf among them, and half of them burst and decayed, with toadstools growing out of them. — The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby, Charles Kingsley

mangel-wurzel, mangold-wurzel, Beta vulgaris vulgaris

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