What is "gari"

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, mandioca, tapioca plant, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima]

A gari (; ) is a horse-drawn cart. Garis typically have two wheels with rubber tires, are pulled by one horse, and can carry two passengers plus the driver. Within towns and cities, they function as taxicabs.

Gari may refer to:

In places:

• Gari-ye Bala ("Upper Gari"), Iran
• Gari-ye Pain ("Lower Gari"), Iran
• Gari, Fars, Iran
• Gari, Tombouctou Region, Mali
• Gari, Russia, several inhabited localities in Russia
• Gari (Kruševac), Serbia
• A section of the Rapido River in Italy

In other uses:

• Gari (ginger), a Japanese condiment
• Gari (genus), a bivalve mollusk group
• Gari (vehicle), a cart
• Gari (band), a musical group
• Gari (sword), a traditional Nias sword from Indonesia
• Garri, a West African flour-like food made from cassava
• A crater on Mars
• Sushi of Gari, a Japanese sushi restaurant in New York City

GARI may also stand for:

• Groupes d'action révolutionnaire internationalistes, a French political group

Gari is a genus of bivalve molluscs in the family Psammobiidae, known as sunset shells.

Gari is a Japanese electro rock band, formed in 1997 in Tokyo. The band debuted on the independent label Deadstocksandwich Records in 1999. In 2005, the band moved to Victor Entertainment. In France, Gari performed concerts at the Japan Expo anime convention in 2007 and 2009.

Gari is a village in the municipality of Kruševac, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 535 people.

Gari is a sword that originates from Nias, an island off the west coast of North Sumatra, Indonesia. It is a term used for a type of sword found only in North Nias.

is a type of tsukemono (pickled vegetables). It is sweet, thinly sliced young ginger that has been marinated in a solution of sugar and vinegar. Young ginger is generally preferred for gari because of its tender flesh and natural sweetness. Gari is often served and eaten after sushi, and is sometimes called sushi ginger. It is considered to be essential in the presentation of sushi. It is used to cleanse the palate between eating different pieces of sushi. Or alternatively before or after the meal.

When traditionally prepared, gari typically has a pale yellow to slightly pink hue from the pickling process. Only very young ginger will develop the slight pink tint. Many brands of commercially produced gari are artificially colored pink (often by E124 or beet juice), either to intensify the color or because the ginger used is too mature to turn pink upon pickling.

As a form of ginger, gari has minor anti-microbial properties, which may be useful when consuming raw food.

The Gari is a short river that flows in Cassino, Italy at the southern end of the region of Lazio. Along its banks, in 1944, occurred the Battle of Gari River, one of the most bloody battle of the Italian Campaign of World War II in 1944, best known as Battle of the Rapido River.

The river origins from a spring in the center of Cassino, in Piazza Corte, at the foot of Montecassino. It flows undergroung and reappear in the Villa Comunale, the main public park in the town. In the thermal area known as Varronian Thermal Baths, it increases considerably its discharge from several springs, as well as from the Rapido River. In Sant'Apollinare, few miles south of Cassino, it joins the Liri to form the Garigliano river, which marks the border between Lazio and Campania.