(Cassabi, W. Ind.)
The native name of a shrub of Central and South America, from the root of which the tapioca and mandioca arc extracted.
·noun A nutritious starch obtained from the rootstocks of the cassava plant, used as food and in mak...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
, or cassada A species of the genus Jatropha janipha, well known to seamen as the cassava bread of...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·add. ·- A West Indian tree (Turpinia occidentalis) of the family Staphyleaceae. ...