Noun
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cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems
used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca
- bitter cassava - tapioca plant - manihot esculenta - manihot utilissima -
cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching
source of tapioca
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a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant
the source of tapioca
a staple food in the tropics
- cassava starch