manioc

(noun) a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics. Synonyms: cassava, cassava starch, manioca.

(noun) cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca. Synonyms: cassava.

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