manioc

6 letters · noun · scores 1,400 in SpellHuntr

noun

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

Manioc in a sentence

Manioc was first reported being grown on the mainland in 1635 at the Portuguese post at Bissau.

Ground manioc (cassava) is mixed with water and pressed through tube woven from palm fibers to remove toxic cyanogenic compounds.

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