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CASSAVA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch
Synonyms:
casava; cassava
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cassava" 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 "cassava"):
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 ("cassava" is a member of...):
genus Manihot; Manihot (genus of economically important tropical plants: cassava)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca
Synonyms:
cassava; manioc
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("cassava" is a kind of...):
root ((botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground)
Meronyms (substance of "cassava"):
tapioca (granular preparation of cassava starch used to thicken especially puddings)
Holonyms ("cassava" is a part of...):
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)
Sense 3
Meaning:
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; manioc; manioca
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cassava" is a kind of...):
amylum; starch (a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles)
Holonyms ("cassava" is a substance of...):
tapioca (granular preparation of cassava starch used to thicken especially puddings)
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