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CASSIRI
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cassiri mean?
• CASSIRI (noun)
The noun CASSIRI has 1 sense:
1. a drink resembling beer; made from fermented cassava juice
Familiarity information: CASSIRI used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A drink resembling beer; made from fermented cassava juice
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("cassiri" is a kind of...):
brew; brewage (drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling)
Holonyms ("cassiri" is a substance of...):
bitter cassava; gari; mandioc; mandioca; Manihot esculenta; Manihot utilissima; manioc; tapioca plant (cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca)
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