Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
manioc .
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- noun obsolete
manioc
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca
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Examples
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Cape Gracias a Dios southward, the eastern coast of America was peopled on its first discovery by much ruder tribes, who did not grow maize, but made bread from the roots of the mandioca (Manihot aipim); and still in British Guiana, on the Lower Amazon, and in north-eastern Brazil, farina made from the roots of the mandioca is the staple food.
The Naturalist in Nicaragua Thomas Belt 1855
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Eddie entrou com a carne e Tyson com a super mandioca de fora.
Globo.com: Four Armed Is Forewarned Cosmo7 2009
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In your country, it may be known by one of the following names: yuca, manioc, tapioca or mandioca.
Chapter 4 1995
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Woolfe and Woolfe (15) presented an outline on the preparation of Farinha puba, which is also known as farinha de mandioca in Brazil.
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A tract of forest had been fired, and this clearing planted with bananas, mandioca, sweet potatoes, etc.
Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America G. Whitfield Ray
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It is difficult to judge of the extent of these _sitio_ plantations, because they are so irregular, and comprise such a variety of trees, -- mandioca, coffee, cacao, and often cotton, being planted pellmell together.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various
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By them we were kindly received, and found that, notwithstanding their extremely sunken condition and abject poverty, they seemed to have mandioca and bananas in abundance.
Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America G. Whitfield Ray
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It was furnished with the large clay ovens, covered with immense shallow copper pans, for drying the farinha, with the troughs for kneading the mandioca, the long straw tubes for expressing the juice, and the sieves for straining the tapioca.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various
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Among the first dishes I had were mandioca root, a black carrion bird, goat's meat, and fox's head.
Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America G. Whitfield Ray
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Other women go around with large wicker trays on their heads, selling _chipá_, the native bread, made from Indian corn, or _mandioca_ root, the staple food of the country.
Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America G. Whitfield Ray
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