manihot esculenta

Noun
  1. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems;
    Used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca (synset 112947449)
    is a type of: casava, cassava - any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch
    has: cassava, manioc - cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca
    substance holonym: cassiri - a drink resembling beer; made from fermented cassava juice
    same as: bitter cassava, gari, mandioc, mandioca, manihot utilissima, manioc, tapioca plant

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