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 ]
cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca
[ Syn: cassava ]
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 ]