Noun cassava has 3 senses
  1. cassava, cassava starch, manioc, manioca - a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics
    --1 is a kind of starch, amylum
    --1 is a substance of tapioca
  2. cassava, manioc - cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca
    --2 is a kind of root
    --2 is a part of
     bitter cassava, manioc, mandioc, mandioca, tapioca plant, gari, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima
    --2 has substances: tapioca
  3. cassava, casava - any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch
    --3 is a kind of shrub, bush
    --3 is a member of Manihot, genus Manihot
    --3 has particulars:
     bitter cassava, manioc, mandioc, mandioca, tapioca plant, gari, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima; sweet cassava, Manihot dulcis
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