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mandioc

NOUN
  1. cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca

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  • -- This euphorbiaceous plant yields cassava or mandiocca meal. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
  • Here the common mode of using it is to cut it in small squares, and boil it in the mandioc pottage, which is the principal food of the poorer inhabitants and the slaves. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823
  • In the fruit season, pumpkins, jackfruit, cocoa-nut, and melons, nearly take place of the mandioc. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823
  • Here the common mode of using it is to cut it in small squares, and boil it in the mandioc pottage, which is the principal food of the poorer inhabitants and the slaves. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823
  • When at any of the houses the bustle of opening the cobwebbed windows, and assembling the family was over, in two or three instances, the servants had to remove dishes of sugar, mandioc, and other provisions, which had been left in the best rooms to dry. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823
  • Brandy is the bribe for which they will do any thing; a dram of that liquor and a handful of mandioc flour being all the food they require when they come down to the port. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823
  • Two principal messes occupied the centre of the table, one, a platter, containing a quantity of mandioc flour, raw; and the other a pile of fish, dressed with oil, garlic, and pimento. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823
  • England, and the cakes of mandioc baked with cocoa nut juice, too dear for the common people to afford a sufficiency even of them. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823
  • The town is pretty well supplied with mandioc flour, jerked beef, and salt fish; but the besiegers prevent all fresh provisions from coming in. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823
  • It forms, together with maize and mandioc, the principal article of food amongst the negroes and colored people. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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