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Meanings of manioc in English
Portuguese
mandioca 
Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca.
Usage of manioc in English
1
The country was quite flat, and the people cultivated manioc very extensively.
2
There were yams also and a sort of dumpling made of manioc.
3
Shinte sent us two large baskets of manioc and six dried fishes.
4
Katende gave us only a little meal and manioc, and a fowl.
5
Bereft of state pay, Kubonge ekes out a living growing manioc.
6
On the ground, soil samples returned fossilized evidence of maize, squash and manioc.
7
These fellows made cakes of manioc and poisoned them with stramonium.
8
Dona Brasi is making manioc flour at her farm deep in the forest.
9
She has a wonderful dish of fish and manioc for her son's guests.
10
St. Lucia grows a considerable quantity of manioc; it exported of cassava flour in-
11
The chief vegetable food is the manioc and lotsa meal.
12
Their land is very fertile, and they can raise ground-nuts and manioc in abundance.
13
This manioc meal is the staple food, the bread equivalent, all along the coast.
14
Three men ate it with their manioc meal, the fourth would not touch it.
15
The people grow sweet potatoes, manioc-outof which tapioca is made-beans ,andthe holcus.
16
The chief has some women preparing some manioc for us.
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