manioc

Noun

• cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca

• cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca

• a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  bitter cassava , mandioc , mandioca , tapioca plant , gari , Manihot esculenta , Manihot utilissima , cassava , cassava starch , manioca