manioc

noun

The cassava-plant or its product.

noun

The tropical plants (Manihot utilissima, and Manihot Aipi), from which cassava and tapioca are prepared; also, cassava.

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.

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