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}, {manioca}]

2: cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and

leaching; source of tapioca [syn: {cassava}]

3: cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle

stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating

drink) and tapioca [syn: {bitter cassava}, {mandioc}, {mandioca},

{tapioca plant}, {gari}, {Manihot esculenta}, {Manihot

utilissima}]