manihot esculenta

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

   Synonymsbitter cassavamaniocmandiocmandiocatapioca plantgariManihot utilissima

   Broadercassava

   Partscassava

Questions about manihot esculenta

What does manihot esculenta mean?

manihot esculenta means "cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca".

What is another word for manihot esculenta?

Close synonyms include bitter cassava, manioc, mandioc, mandioca, tapioca plant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is manihot esculenta a common word?

manihot esculenta is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.