manioc
Nouns
- (n) a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics cassava, cassava starch, manioca,
- (n) cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca cassava,
- (n) cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca bitter cassava, gari, mandioc, mandioca, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima, tapioca plant,