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cassava
(Cassabi, W. Ind.) The native name of a shrub of Central and South America, from the root of which ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
, or cassada
A species of the genus Jatropha janipha, well known to seamen as the cassava bread of the West Indies. Tapioca is produced from the Jatropha manihot. Caution is necessary in the use of these roots, as the juice is poisonous. The root used as chewsticks, to cleanse the teeth and gums, by the negroes, produces a copious flow of frothy saliva.
(Cassabi, W. Ind.) The native name of a shrub of Central and South America, from the root of which ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.