casava

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any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch.

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Noun

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casava - any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch cassava genus Manihot, Manihot - genus of economically important tropical plants: cassava bitter cassava, gari, mandioc, mandioca, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima, tapioca plant, manioc - cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca Manihot dulcis, sweet cassava - South American plant with roots used as a vegetable and herbage used for stock feed bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems