cassava
- n a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics
- n cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca
- n any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch
- She ate whatever Marie prepared, whether it was a stew of pounded cassava leaves or a soup of ground peanuts; but like all children, she loved sweets and would charm her mother .
- Also in the works are drought-tolerant, disease-defeating and vitamin-fortified forms of such crops as sorghum and cassavahardly staples in the West, but essentials elsewhere in .
- But they are very good in Robertsport," says Brown, 13, as he peels his lunch of raw cassava in water from the Atlantic.