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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
manioca is a noun meaning "a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics". It carries one recorded sense.
a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for manioca come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.