Manioc

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  • noun. undefined
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The cassava-plant or its product.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The tropical plants (Manihot utilissima, and Manihot Aipi), from which cassava and tapioca are prepared; also, cassava.
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  • noun. The tropical plant, Manihot esculenta, from which cassava and tapioca are prepared.
  • noun. Cassava root, eaten as a food.
  • noun. A food starch prepared from the root.
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  • noun. cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca
  • noun. a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics
  • noun. cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca
    • Word Usage
    "For Oguamanam: The problem also extends to agricultural research — better manioc is underfunded."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    amylum  casava  cassava  root  starch  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    beech mast  breadfruit  cacao  casaran  cassada  
    variant
    mandioc  manihoc  manihot  
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