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

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1
They had also brought us some mandioca-flour and a supply of fruits.
On the Banks of the Amazon
2
Like the Quichuas, they were agriculturalists-cultivatingmandioca, maize, calabashes, and potatoes.
The Western World / Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural H...
3
Sugar-cane, mandioca, rice, beans, and Indian corn were raised with success.
Across Unknown South America
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The mandioca you have eaten in the shape of farina.
Martin Rattler
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We also saw melons growing in abundance, as well as mandioca and Indian corn.
On the Banks of the Amazon
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A field of mandioca, when ripe, looks something like a nursery of young plants.
A Voyage round the World / A book for boys
7
The liquor served was chiefly a spirit distilled by the people themselves from mandioca cakes.
The Naturalist on the River Amazons
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The most interesting subject connected with our trip was the cultivation and preparation of the mandioca.
A Voyage round the World / A book for boys
9
The people occupy themselves the greater part of the year with their small plantations of mandioca.
The Naturalist on the River Amazons
10
The mandioca is called cassava in some countries.
A Voyage round the World / A book for boys
11
He has a wife and children, and sometimes comes down to the roças to steal the mandioca.
The Naturalist on the River Amazons
12
A tract of forest had been fired, and this clearing planted with bananas, mandioca, sweet potatoes, etc.
Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wa...
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The Aráras are one of those tribes which do not plant mandioca; and indeed have no settled habitations.
The Naturalist on the River Amazons
14
The most frequent cause of death is poisoning by drinking raw Tucupí, the juice of the mandioca root.
The Naturalist on the River Amazons
15
It is made by soaking mandioca cakes in water until fermentation takes place, and tastes like new beer.
The Naturalist on the River Amazons
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The valleys and slopes are highly fertile and produce sugar, cotton, tobacco, Indian corn, rice, mandioca and Iruits.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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