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Cassava has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

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Noun
1

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

2

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

3

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

4

Manioc (Manihot esculenta), a tropical plant which is the source of tapioca.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
starch root shrub
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
bitter cassava sweet cassava
Rhyming Words
ava dava tava hava java fava sava kava lava rava nava cava slava drava brava flava shava chava bhava guava
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