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Noun: tapioca plant
  1. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca
    - bitter cassava, manioc, mandioc, mandioca, gari, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima

Derived forms: tapioca plants

Type of: casava, cassava

Encyclopedia: Tapioca plant