cassava : Idioms & Phrases
bitter cassava
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noun cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca
Manihot utilissima; mandioca; Manihot esculenta; gari; mandioc; tapioca plant; manioc.
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cassava starch
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noun a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics
manioca; manioc; cassava.
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sweet cassava
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noun South American plant with roots used as a vegetable and herbage used for stock feed
Manihot dulcis.
