Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
cassava .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch
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Examples
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Uma personalidade boa, carinhosa, parecer gostar de mim.... se ela não fosse casada, eu casava com ela.
Comic Book Legends Revealed History | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2005
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In markets in Bujumbura and rural Bubanza, 41 kilometers (25 miles) north, vendors sell tomatoes, pineapples, casava, corn, bananas and bottles of palm oil.
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(CIAT): focuses on maize, beans, and casava (manioc).
Chapter 15 1981
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Fresh cassava and cassava pasteDried casava and cassava flourCooked cassava floursStarch and tapiocaCassava leaves
Chapter 4 1977
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Feeding on the luscious berries and the rich casava root,
The Book of Humorous Verse Various 1902
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He brought roasted mullets, which were very good meat, great store of plantains, peccaries, casava bread, pistachio nuts, and pine apples, which tempted Ralegh exceedingly.
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He landed next day at sun-rise, hoping to catch the Portuguese in their houses, and by that means to procure a supply of casava meal; but on coming to the houses, we found them all burnt to the ground, so that we thought no one had remained on the island.
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Sugarcane, casava, and other crops Texas can produce ethanol and other biofuels affordably, providing a market driven counterbalance to already increasing gasoline prices.
jobsanger Ted McLaughlin 2010
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The smell of casava leaf and fish being cooked on open fires filled the air, and the beat of the djembe drums got louder as more and more guests arrived, calling out "Ow di bodi?"
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The smell of casava leaf and fish being cooked on open fires filled the air, and the beat of the djembe drums got louder as more and more guests arrived, calling out "Ow di bodi?"
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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