manioc   (TTS Sound)

The noun manioc has 3 senses

• 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)


• cassava, manioc -- (cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca)


• bitter cassava, manioc, mandioc, mandioca, tapioca plant, gari, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima -- (cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca)