Manioc is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MANIOC in dictionary:

NOUN:
• (Tupi) a plant of the manioc genus, aka cassava, also MANDIOC, MANDIOCA, MANDIOCCA, MANIHOC, MANIHOT, MANIOCA
• The tropical plants (Manihot utilissima, and M. Aipi), from which cassava and tapioca are prepared; also, cassava.
• a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics
• cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca
• cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca
• the starchy tuberous root of a tropical tree, used as food in tropical countries.
• starch or flour obtained from cassava.
• the shrubby tree from which cassava is obtained, native to tropical America and cultivated throughout the tropics.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a tropical plant
• same as cassava

Words related to MANIOC

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Words that contain MANIOC

manioca11 maniocs11 maniocas12

How to use MANIOC in a sentence

• Vast cotton fields follow one after the other, and we also grow manioc and indigo, while in our kitchen gardens we have onions and pimentoes, and gourds and cucumbers.
• The manioc plant shoots out stalks from four to six feet in height, with a number of large leaves at their upper extremities.
• Others were eating pieces of meat, which they likewise tore with their hands, and threw into their mouths alternately with handfuls of manioc flour.
• My wife showed me a large store of potatoes and manioc roots, which she and her children had dug up the evening before.
• This acting upon the manioc, the sap burst through the cloth, and flowed on the ground copiously.
• The banana, millet and manioc zones, and especially their swampy coastal plains, were of course the chief sources of slaves for the transatlantic trade.
• Manioc, maize, the potato, the turnip, have all been cultivated.
• What is Tapioca? Tapioca is another kind of starch, obtained from the root of the manioc plant, which is cultivated in most hot climates, in Asia, Africa, and America.
• Everybody deserted his customary manioc and bought a loaf of the good fellow, who rubbed his hands with delight at the success of his speculation.
• Nobody would pay his price, and everybody returned to manioc.
• The mixture thus obtained composes the dough of manioc.
• Forgues and his companion to devour, without thanks, salt or manioc, the frugal supper.
• The starch of the root of the manioc is prepared in the following manner, as described by Dr.
• The manioc or cassava is cultivated in America, on both sides of the equator, to about latitude 30 degrees north and south.
• The farina of the manioc is almost the only kind of meal used in Brazil, at least in the north, near the equator.
• An acre of manioc is said to yield as much nutriment as six acres of wheat.
• Marie which has evidently been at one time well arranged with a large manioc plantation and garden.
• The land in the neighbourhood is well cultivated and manioc, sweet potatoes, bananas and pineapples flourish.
• The root of the manioc yields the flour, which is made into kwanga and unless it is well boiled, is supposed to be very injurious.
• On these the manioc will be planted for two years and then new areas will be cleared in the same manner.
• In the afternoon a Chief arrives with the not unusual story that a troup of elephants have entered and destroyed his plantation of manioc.

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