cassava

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  1. noun A shrubby tropical American plant (Manihot esculenta) widely grown for its large, tuberous, starchy roots.
  2. noun The root of this plant, eaten as a staple food in the tropics only after leaching and drying to remove cyanide. Cassava starch is also the source of tapioca.

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  • Plantains, cassava, and maize, are the chief food. —  The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II, 1869-1873
  • Products -- yams, cassava, corn, millet, sorghum, cocoa, coffee, rice, cotton.
  • Despite insufficient rainfall in some areas, the Togolese Government has achieved its goal of self-sufficiency in food crops -- corn, cassava, yams, sorghum, millet, and groundnut.
  • Squash pumpkins, vanilla beans, and root crops such as cassava and yams, coffee, and noni are the major cash crops.
  • "People can also eat sweet potatoes, cassava, arrow roots and many other nutritious foods," she said. —  The Standard | Headlines
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  1. Ultimately from Taino casavi, flour from manioc.

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  1. Formerly also casava, casave, cassada, cassado; New Latin cassava; from French cassave, from Spanish casabe, cazabe = Portuguese cassave, from Haytian kasabi.
 

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