MANIOC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does manioc mean? 

• MANIOC (noun)
  The noun MANIOC has 3 senses:

1. a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics

2. cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca

3. cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca

  Familiarity information: MANIOC used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANIOC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

cassava; cassava starch; manioc; manioca

Hypernyms ("manioc" is a kind of...):

amylum; starch (a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles)

Holonyms ("manioc" is a substance of...):

tapioca (granular preparation of cassava starch used to thicken especially puddings)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cassava; manioc

Hypernyms ("manioc" is a kind of...):

root ((botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground)

Meronyms (substance of "manioc"):

tapioca (granular preparation of cassava starch used to thicken especially puddings)

Holonyms ("manioc" is a part 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)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bitter cassava; gari; mandioc; mandioca; Manihot esculenta; Manihot utilissima; manioc; tapioca plant

Hypernyms ("manioc" is a kind of...):

casava; cassava (any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch)

Meronyms (parts of "manioc"):

cassava; manioc (cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca)

Meronyms (substance of "manioc"):

cassiri (a drink resembling beer; made from fermented cassava juice)

 Context examples 

In the morning, after a frugal breakfast of coffee and manioc—we had to be economical of our stores—we held a council of war as to the best method of ascending to the plateau above us.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)