tapioca plant

Questions about tapioca plant

What does tapioca plant mean?

tapioca plant 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 tapioca plant?

Close synonyms include bitter cassava, manioc, mandioc, mandioca, gari. 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 tapioca plant a common word?

tapioca plant 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.