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Meaning of manioc

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  manioc
      n 1: 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}, {manioc},
           {manioca}]
      2: cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and
         leaching; source of tapioca [syn: {cassava}, {manioc}]
      3: 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}, {gari}, {Manihot
         esculenta}, {Manihot utilissima}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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