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Meanings of tapioca plant in English
Portuguese
mandioca 
Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca.
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Examples for "manioc"
Examples for "manioc"
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.
1
Three gari preparations separated by 2-week washout periods were consumed.
2
Children in this city have gari-themed fancy-dress parties.
3
I've gained so much, he says of the 20 years since he started working as a gari.
4
Our objective was to compare the effectiveness of biofortified gari to gari prepared with red palm oil.
5
It might include piping hot gari, the ubiquitous mashed-potato-like "dunking bread" made from ground cassava, the tropical root from which tapioca is produced.
1
They had also brought us some mandioca-flour and a supply of fruits.
2
Like the Quichuas, they were agriculturalists-cultivatingmandioca, maize, calabashes, and potatoes.
3
Sugar-cane, mandioca, rice, beans, and Indian corn were raised with success.
4
The mandioca you have eaten in the shape of farina.
5
We also saw melons growing in abundance, as well as mandioca and Indian corn.
1
The main dependence is the mandioc, or farina, as it is called.
2
Although they cultivated maize, and mandioc, and plaintains, they wanted every other supply.
3
We found rice, maize, millet, mandioc, plantains, oranges, pine-apples, and many other fruits.
4
The country abounded in excellent native fruits, and the mandioc furnished never-failing stores of bread.
5
The small mandioc tubers when boiled are very good and are used instead of potatoes.
1
There are two species, the sweet and bitter cassava.
2
The experimental researches of Dr. Shier have led him to believe that the green bitter cassava will give one-fifth its weight of starch.
3
The concentrated juice of the bitter cassava, under the name of cassareep, forms the basis of the West India dish, "pepper pot."
Usage of tapioca plant in English
1
The cassava, or tapioca plant, reared its high, passion-flower leaves above the grass, and some sago-palms thrust aloft their thick-stemmed trunks.