Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sauce made of cassava or maniocroot.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A condiment made from the sap of the bitter cassava (
Manihot utilissima ) deprived of its poisonous qualities, concentrated by boiling, and flavored with aromatics. Seepepper pot .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A thick black liquid made from
cassava root andspices , usedmedicinally and as aflavouring andpreservative .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a flavoring made by boiling down the juice of the bitter cassava; used in West Indian cooking
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Examples
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Juice - the juice expressed from the tubers during starch production is sometimes concentrated and spices added to obtain a sauce, known as 'cassari po' or 'cassareep' in the West Indies and 'tucupi' in Brazil.
Chapter 11 1987
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The concentrated juice of the bitter cassava, under the name of cassareep, forms the basis of the West India dish, "pepper pot."
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