manioc

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

From French manioc, through Portuguese mandioca, ultimately from Old Tupi mani'oka. Doublet of manihot.

Mandiocca is only American-Spanish for manioc. — The North-West Amazons: Notes of some months spent among cannibal tribes, Thomas Whiffen
Under ordinary circumstances the man of colour in the tropics will only raise enough maize, manioc, or tobacco for his own needs. — An African Adventure, Isaac Frederick Marcosson
There Mr. Stott could plant his poor remnant of English vegetable seeds, or with greater hope the maize, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, ground-nuts, beans, and manioc of the agricultural and fishing Bantu population. — The Man Who Did the Right Thing: A Romance, Harry Johnston

cassava, cassava starch, manioca

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