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Manioc   /mˈæniˌɑk/   Listen
Manioc

noun
(Written also mandioc, manihoc, manihot)
1.
A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics.  Synonyms: cassava, cassava starch, manioca.
2.
Cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca.  Synonym: cassava.
3.
Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca.  Synonyms: bitter cassava, gari, mandioc, mandioca, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima, tapioca plant.





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"Manioc" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the greater Antilles and Bahamas differed little in culture. They cultivated maize, manioc, yams, potatoes, corn, and cotton. The latter they wove into what scanty apparel they required. Their arms were bows with reed arrows, pointed with fish teeth or stones, stone axes, spears, and a war club ...
— The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations • Daniel G. Brinton
... destined, like melons, fruit, mutton, beef, and grown animals. Others when they begin to decompose, such as snipe, wood- cock and pheasant. Others not until cooking has destroyed all their injurious properties, such as the potato, manioc, ...
— The Physiology of Taste • Brillat Savarin
... products: bananas, sugarcane, coffee, sisal, corn, cotton, manioc (tapioca), tobacco, vegetables, ...
— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.


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