manioc

1. 1.

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

   Synonymscassavacassava starchmanioca

   Broaderstarch
2. 2.

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

   Synonymscassava

   Broaderroot

   Part ofbitter cassava
3. 3.

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

   Synonymsbitter cassavamandiocmandiocatapioca plantgariManihot esculentaManihot utilissima

   Broadercassava

   Partscassava

Other forms of manioc

plural

maniocs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about manioc

What does manioc mean?

manioc means "a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in manioc?

manioc has 3 syllables: man-i-oc. The stress falls on "man". In IPA it is /ˈmæniˌɑk/.

What is another word for manioc?

Close synonyms include cassava, cassava starch, manioca, cassava, bitter cassava. 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 manioc a common word?

manioc is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with manioc?

1 word rhymes with manioc. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.