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Cassava

noun
1.
A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics.  Synonyms: cassava starch, manioc, manioca.
2.
Cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca.  Synonym: manioc.
3.
Any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch.  Synonym: casava.



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... N.W., through forest and immense fields of cassava, some three years old, with roots as thick as a ...
— The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 • David Livingstone


Words linked to "Cassava" :   tapioca, root, Manihot, sweet cassava, mandioc, Manihot utilissima, tapioca plant, Manihot esculenta, starch, shrub, gari, Manihot dulcis, genus Manihot, bush, mandioca, amylum


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