manioc
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See also: Manioc
Alternative forms
Etymology
From French manioc and Spanish mandioca, ultimately from Old Tupi mani'oka.
Pronunciation
Noun
manioc (usually uncountable, plural maniocs)
- (countable, uncountable) The tropical plant Manihot esculenta, from which cassava and tapioca are prepared.
- 1975, William R. Bascom, African Dilemma Tales, Mouton (De Gruyter), page 86,
- The banana, the most important crop above ground, quarreled with the manioc, the most important underground crop. […] The manioc said that it, the yam, the sweet potato, and others were the ones that fed people and that without them people could not exist.
- 1977, Donald W. Lathrap, Our Father the Cayman, Our Mother the Gourd, Charles A. Reed (editor), Origins of Agriculture, Mouton (De Gruyter), page 741,
- The selection process leading to the bitter group of maniocs has been in terms of higher starch yield and in terms of starch of a quality more appropriate for making bread ans flour.
- 1988, Robert L. Carneiro, “5: Indians of the Amazonian Rainforest”, in Julie Sloan Denslow, Christine Padoch, editors, People of the Tropical Rain Forest, University of California Press, page 82:
- Manioc, the main subsistence crop of Amazonia, is planted entirely from cuttings, which are inserted into mounds hoed up in the spaces left between the logs and the stumps.
- 1993, Jonathan D. Sauer, Historical Geography of Crop Plants: A Select Roster, CRC Press, page 60:
- Manioc was first reported being grown on the mainland in 1635 at the Portuguese post at Bissau.
- 2003, Ian Spencer Hornsey, A History of Beer and Brewing, Royal Society of Chemistry, page 26:
- Manioc gives the highest yield of starch per hectare of any known crop; some 90% of the fabric of the crop can be regarded as potentially fermentable carbohydrate.
- 1975, William R. Bascom, African Dilemma Tales, Mouton (De Gruyter), page 86,
- (uncountable) Cassava root, eaten as a food.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- In the morning, after a frugal breakfast of coffee and manioc - we had to be economical of our stores - we held a council of war as to the best method of ascending to the plateau above us.
- 2006, Dietland Muller-Schwarze, Chemical Ecology of Vertebrates, Cambridge University Press, page 321:
- Ground manioc (cassava) is mixed with water and pressed through tube woven from palm fibers to remove toxic cyanogenic compounds.
- 2013, Elizabeth Ewart, Space and Society in Central Brazil: A Panará Ethnography, Bloomsbury, page 174:
- She made manioc pie, got water, got wild banana leaves and pounded manioc. She made the earth oven and later she opened and took out the manioc pie.
- (uncountable) A food starch prepared from the root.
Synonyms
Translations
tropical plant
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root
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starch
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References
manioc on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Manihot on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Manihot on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Category:Cassava on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
Pronunciation
Noun
manioc m (plural maniocs)
Descendants
Further reading
- “manioc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Noun
manioc m (plural maniocs)
Descendants
Etymology
Noun
manioc n (uncountable)
Declension
declension of manioc (singular only)
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