Crossword clues for manioc
manioc
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cassava \Cas"sa*va\ (k[a^]s"s[.a]*v[.a]), n. [F. cassave, Sp. cazabe, fr. kasabi, in the language of Haiti.]
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(Bot.) A shrubby euphorbiaceous plant of the genus Manihot, with fleshy rootstocks yielding an edible starch; -- called also manioc.
Note: There are two species, bitter and sweet, from which the cassava of commerce is prepared in the West Indies, tropical America, and Africa. The bitter ( Manihot utilissima) is the more important; this has a poisonous sap, but by grating, pressing, and baking the root the poisonous qualities are removed. The sweet ( Manihot Aipi) is used as a table vegetable.
A nutritious starch obtained from the rootstocks of the cassava plant, used as food and in making tapioca.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, from Tupi manioch, mandioca, name for the root of the cassava plant.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable uncountable English) The tropical plant, ''Manihot esculenta'', from which cassava and tapioca are prepared. 2 (context uncountable English) cassava root, eaten as a food. 3 (context uncountable English) A food starch prepared from the root.
WordNet
n. a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics [syn: cassava, cassava starch, manioca]
cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca [syn: cassava]
cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca [syn: bitter cassava, mandioc, mandioca, tapioca plant, gari, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima]
Usage examples of "manioc".
He found an Auca house, and one woman peacefully working in the manioc patch.
Vast cotton fields follow one after the other, and we also grow manioc and indigo, while in our kitchen gardens we have onions and pimentoes, and gourds and cucumbers.
Euphorbias, it is true, grew in considerable numbers, but as they were only of the oil-producing species, and not the kind from which cassava or manioc is procured, they were useless in an alimentary point of view.
In exchange, Nelson would chop our firewood, boil up steaming pots of lumpy manioc, and bring us fruit, greens, and bark potions collected from the forest.
Legends of both the island and the continent can be interpreted to suggest that this was the case, and the presence of cultivated South American plants such as the sweet potato, the bottle gourd, the manioc, and the totora reeds from which they made their boats confirms that some contact occurred.
Big scratchy brown bags with manioc and bananas and little cloth bags of something hard.
It wasn't terribly enticing to Shandy, who'd grown fond of green turtle, manioc root and salmagundi salad.
Another food plant of enormous importance to tropical America in the present as well as in the past is Manihot utilissima, otherwise known as Manioc, Mandioca, or Yuca, from the tuberous root of which Cassava is prepared.
She took us to the back of the terreiro, where there was a multicolored banquet of manioc, pimento, coco, amendoim, gengibre, moqueca de siri-mole, vatapa, ef6, caruru, black beans with farofa, amid a languid odor of African spices, sweet and strong tropical flavors, which we tasted dutifully, knowing that we were sharing the food of the ancient Sudanese gods.
The scents of manioc powder and nuoc mam, the fermented fish sauce ubiquitous in Vietnamese cuisine, wafted up from a restaurant on the ground floor.