manihot utilissima

Questions about manihot utilissima

What does manihot utilissima mean?

manihot utilissima 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 utilissima?

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 utilissima a common word?

manihot utilissima 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.