Manioc

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. See cassava.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The tropical plant, Manihot esculenta, from which cassava and tapioca are prepared.
  • n. Cassava root, eaten as a food.
  • n. A food starch prepared from the root.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The tropical plants (Manihot utilissima, and Manihot Aipi), from which cassava and tapioca are prepared; also, cassava.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The cassava-plant or its product.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca
  • n. a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics
  • n. cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    root    amylum    starch    cassava    casava   
    Variant
    mandioc    manihoc    manihot   
    Same Context
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