noun
- 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, cassava starch, manioca
- Cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca.
- synonyms: cassava
- Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca.
- synonyms: bitter cassava, mandioc, mandioca, tapioca plant, gari, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima
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