- cassava, casava - any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch
--1 is a kind of shrub, bush
--1 is a member of Manihot, genus Manihot
--1 has particulars:bitter cassava, manioc, mandioc, mandioca, tapioca plant, gari, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima; sweet cassava, Manihot dulcis