A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics.

synoniemen: cassava, cassava starch, manioca.

Nederlands: maniok, cassave, cassavebrood
Pools: kassawa

Cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca.

synoniem: cassava.

Pools: maniok

Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca.

synoniemen: bitter cassava, gari, mandioc, mandioca, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima, tapioca plant.

Pools: maniok gorzki, maniok jadalny