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1. 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
    
2. Cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca
   - cassava
    
3. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca
   - bitter cassava, mandioc, mandioca, tapioca plant, gari, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima

Derived forms: maniocs

Type of: amylum, casava, cassava, root, starch

Part of: tapioca

Encyclopedia: Manioc