Cassava

·noun A nutritious starch obtained from the rootstocks of the cassava plant, used as food and in making tapioca.

II. Cassava ·noun A shrubby euphorbiaceous plant of the genus Manihot, with fleshy rootstocks yielding an edible starch;

— called also manioc.

cassava
(Cassabi, W. Ind.) The native name of a shrub of Central and South America, from the root of which ...

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cassava
, or cassada A species of the genus Jatropha janipha, well known to seamen as the cassava bread of...

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Cassava wood
·add. ·- A West Indian tree (Turpinia occidentalis) of the family Staphyleaceae. ...

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