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Manihot

NOUN
  1. genus of economically important tropical plants: cassava

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  • This is the granulated root of the Macacheira plant, the _Jatropha manihot_, which to our palates would seem like desiccated sawdust, although it appears to be a necessity for the In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians
  • In Africa, the most important is African mosaic or curly leaf disease (manihot virus), transmitted by a white fly (Bemisia sp.). Chapter 11
  • Now they are working with World Wildlife Fund to develop small-scale "agro-forestry" systems, mixing trees with commercially viable perennial plants, planting rice corn, and manihot root, as well as cocoa, palms, and avocado -- creating an agricultural system that is minimally disruptive to the forest. Charting New Courses For Global Conservation
  • The classical example of this is the treatment, before eating, of yams (Dioscorea spp.) and keladis, taros, cocoyams (aroid yams of the genera Colocasia, Xanthosoma, Amorphophallus), tapioca, cassava (Manihot esculenta Cranz), and the so-called cabbages of palms. Chapter 19
  • The manioc is of the white variety (Fatropha Aypim seu utilissima), and, as at Lagos, the root may be called the country bread: I never saw the poisonous or black manioc (Fatropha manihot), either in East or in West Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
  • Now they are working with World Wildlife Fund to develop small-scale "agro-forestry" systems, mixing trees with commercially viable perennial plants, planting rice, corn, and manihot root, as well as cocoa, palms, and avocado -- creating an agricultural system that is minimally disruptive to the forest. Charting New Courses For Global Conservation
  • Those who live in the Barotse valley cultivate in addition the sugar-cane, sweet potato, and manioc (‘Jatropha manihot’). Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
  • Root of the bitter cassava (_Janipha manihot_), the Yucca amarga of the 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
  • The classical example of this is the treatment, before eating, of yams (Dioscorea spp.) and keladis, taros, cocoyams (aroid yams of the genera Colocasia, Xanthosoma, Amorphophallus), tapioca, cassava (Manihot esculenta Cranz), and the so-called cabbages of palms. Chapter 19
  • As blossoms are occasionally plucked from potato plants, so the manihot or cassava is deprived of its buds to increase the size of its roots. 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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