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Manioc definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MA'NIOC
MAN'IPLE, n. [L. manipulus,a handful. Qu.L. manus and the Teutonic full.]
1. A handful.
2. A small band of soldiers; a word applied only to Roman troops.
3. A fanon, or kind of ornament worn about the arm of a mass priest; or a garment worn by the Romish priests when they officiate.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics [syn: cassava, cassava starch, manioc, manioca]
2: cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca [syn: cassava, manioc]
3: cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca [syn: bitter cassava, manioc, mandioc, mandioca, tapioca plant, gari, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima]

Merriam Webster's

also mandioca noun Etymology: French manioc & Spanish & Portuguese mandioca, all ultimately from Tupi mani?óka, mandi?óka Date: circa 1554 cassava

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 cassava. 2 the flour made from it. Etymology: Tupi mandioca

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cassava Cas"sa*va, n. [F. cassave, Sp. cazabe, fr. kasabi, in the language of Hayti.] 1. (Bot.) A shrubby euphorbiaceous plant of the genus Manihot, with fleshy rootstocks yielding an edible starch; -- called also manioc. Note: There are two species, bitter and sweet, from which the cassava of commerce is prepared in the West Indies, tropical America, and Africa. The bitter (Manihot utilissima) is the more important; this has a poisonous sap, but by grating, pressing, and baking the root the poisonous qualities are removed. The sweet (M. Aipi) is used as a table vegetable. 2. A nutritious starch obtained from the rootstocks of the cassava plant, used as food and in making tapioca.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Manioc Ma"ni*oc, n. [Pg. mandioca, fr. Braz.] (Bot.) The tropical plants (Manihot utilissima, and M. Aipi), from which cassava and tapioca are prepared; also, cassava. [Written also mandioc, manihoc, manihot.]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Cassava. See mandioc.