A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics.

synonyms: cassava, cassava starch, manioca.

Dutch: maniok, cassave, cassavebrood
Polish: kassawa

Cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca.

synonym: cassava.

Polish: maniok

Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca.

synonyms: bitter cassava, gari, mandioc, mandioca, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima, tapioca plant.

Polish: maniok gorzki, maniok jadalny