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Cassava

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch

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Senses

Wordset Dictionary

cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching

Wordset Dictionary

a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant

Classifications

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
casavacassava starchmaniocmanioca
plural
Cassavas
possessive
Cassava's
pluralpossessive
Cassavas'