- 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 - 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
--2 has substances: tapiocabitter cassava, manioc, mandioc, mandioca, tapioca plant, gari, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima - 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