Meaning : 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
Meaning : Cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching. Source of tapioca.
Synonyms : cassava
Meaning : 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