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cassava starch(medicine)
Cassava and cheese fritters (Bolinhos de mandioca e queijo)(recipes)

cassava (iou)



cassava noun. . M16.
[Taino casavi, cazabbi, infl. by French cassave, Spanish cassava.]
A plant of the spurge family, Manihot esculenta (also called manioc), much grown in the tropics for its edible tuberous roots and having two groups of cultivars, those containing high amounts of cyanide in their untreated roots (more fully bitter cassava) and those with low amounts of cyanide (more fully sweet cassava). M16.
Starch or flour obtained from the roots of this plant; bread made from this. L16.