manioc

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Our friends had brought a supply of plantains and several other things--manioc, sugar-cane, and squashes.

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  1. noun See cassava.

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  • Crops sprayed that day totalled 375 acres of rice, manioc, and beans. —  Operation Ranch Hand - The Air Force and Herbicides in Southeast Asia 1961-1971
  • Agriculture: Products -- manioc, sugar, rice, corn, peanuts, vegetables, coffee, cocoa, forest products.
  • Food crops -- manioc, corn, legumes, plantains, peanuts.
  • Our friends had brought a supply of plantains and several other things--manioc, sugar-cane, and squashes. —  The Two Supercargoes Adventures in Savage Africa
  • The whole extent, except where 'bush' lingers, is an old plantation of bananas, manioc, and ground-nuts. —  To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative
 

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  1. French, from Tupi mandioca, manioca.

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  1. Also manihoc, manihot, maniocca; = Spanish Portuguese mandioca; of Brazilian origin.
 

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/ˈmænɪɑk/
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