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Used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca
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mandioca
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n. (context obsolete English) manioc
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mandioc \Man"di*oc\, Mandioca \Man`di*o"ca\, n. (Bot.) See Manioc .
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n. cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca [syn: bitter cassava , manioc , mandioc , tapioca plant , gari , Manihot esculenta , Manihot utilissima ]
Usage examples of mandioca.
The true starch of the Mandioca is known to commerce as Brazilian arrowroot, and this, after heating on hot plates and stirring with an iron rod, becomes tapioca.
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.