CASAVA

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Meaning:

Any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch

Synonyms:

casava; cassava

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("casava" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "casava"):

bitter cassava; gari; mandioc; mandioca; Manihot esculenta; Manihot utilissima; manioc; tapioca plant (cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca)

Manihot dulcis; sweet cassava (South American plant with roots used as a vegetable and herbage used for stock feed)

Holonyms ("casava" is a member of...):

genus Manihot; Manihot (genus of economically important tropical plants: cassava)