Definition of Mandioca

1. Noun. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca.

Exact synonyms: Bitter Cassava, Gari, Mandioc, Manihot Esculenta, Manihot Utilissima, Manioc, Tapioca Plant
Terms within: Cassiri
Generic synonyms: Casava, Cassava
Terms within: Cassava, Manioc

Definition of Mandioca

1. manioc [n -S] - See also: manioc

Medical Definition of Mandioca

1. See Manioc. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mandioca

mandibuloacral dysostosis
mandibulofacial
mandibulofacial dysostosis
mandibulofacial dysotosis syndrome
mandibulofacial dysplasia
mandibulohyoid
mandibulomaxillary fixation
mandibulopharyngeal
mandibulum
mandil
mandilion
mandils
mandingos
mandioc
mandioca (current term)
mandiocas
mandiocs
mandir
mandira
mandiras
mandirs
mandlen
mandlestone
mandlestones
mandment
mandments
mandocello
mandola
mandolas

Literary usage of Mandioca

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries by Charles Darwin (1890)
"On the evening of the 23rd we arrived at Rio, having finished our pleasant little excursion. During the remainder of my mandioca OR CASSAVA. stay at Rio, ..."

2. Ten Months in Brazil: With Notes on the Paraguayan War by John Codman (1872)
"AFTER all that may be said of coffee, sugar, and cotton, mandioca is the most ... When eaten raw, the mandioca root is poisonous ; but when boiled, ..."

3. Journal of the Society of Arts by Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1856)
"mandioca meal, or farina, is prepared by rasping the large fleshy tubers upon wooden rasps of considerable size and of great hardness; specimens of these ..."

4. Ten Months in Brazil: With Incidents of Voyages and Travels, Descriptions of by John Codman (1867)
"Cultivation of mandioca. — Its Importance to Brazil. —Process of Manufacturing it. — An old Roman Catholic Chapel. — Negro Worship therein. ..."

5. Sketches of Residence and Travels in Brazil: Embracing Historical and by Daniel Parish Kidder (1845)
"mandioca.—Aboriginal uses.— Present mode of Preparation.—Ladies of the Household.—Internal regulations.—Evening Worship.—Chaplain.—The Gold Washing. ..."

6. The Captivity of Hans Stade of Hesse: In A.D. 1547-1555, Among the Wild by Hans Staden, Albert Tootal, Richard Francis Burton (1874)
"He also had the intention of thence bringing (potter's) clay and root-meal (mandioca) with whicli to prepare the feast and eat me. And when he left, ..."

7. Notices of Brazil in 1828 and 1829 by Robert Walsh (1830)
"... far exceeded any thing I had ever seen before, or ever expect to see^ From hence I descended into the plain below, to the fazenda of mandioca, ..."

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