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  1.                 From WordNet dictionary, version 3.0:
                

    
                
                  
    manioc
n. 1. a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics
Synonyms: cassava, cassava starch, manioca
2. cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca
Synonyms: cassava
3. cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca
Synonyms: bitter cassava, mandioc, mandioca, tapioca plant, gari, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima