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manioc|ˈmænɪɒk|
Forms: α. 6–9 manihot, 7 manyot, magniot. β. 7– mandioc, manioc, (7 manyoc, mandioque, 8 maniock, 9 magnoc). γ. 7 mandihoca, 7, 9 mandioca, 9 manioc(c)a.
[repr. Tupi mandioca, Guarani mandio, which denotes the root of the plant, the leaves being called in Tupi manisoba, the stalk maniba or maniva, and the juice manipuera (Burton Highlands of Brazil, 1869, II. 351).
The form manihot, adopted in botanical L. as the specific name, appears to be a Fr. spelling with silent t. The spelling manioch occurs in Fr. in 1614 (Claude d'Abbeville Mission en Maragnan 229).]
The plant cassava, q.v. (genus Manihot, formerly Jatropha). Also, the meal made from it.
α1568Hacket tr. Thevet's New found World lviii. 93 The Americanes make meale of those rootes that are called Manihot [Fr. orig. (1558) Manihot]. 1611E. Aston tr. Boemus' Mann. & Cust. 501 Rootes of Brasile called Aypi and Manyot. 1698Froger Voy. 113 Their fields of Maes and Magniot. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 318 Manihot. Jatropha. 1802[see β]. 1881Daily News 12 Dec. 3/5 A species of manihot, from which the cearâ rubber was obtained.
β1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 399 Mandioc a root is their chiefest diet, whereof they make flower. 1666J. Davies tr. Hist. Caribby Isl. 50 A small tree called Manyoc, by some Manyot, and by others Mandioque. 1683Lorrain Muret's Funeral Rite 132 Thou mightest have lived so well,..thou didst want neither Manioc, nor Potato's. 1783Justamond tr. Raynal's Hist. Indies V. 321 The manioc is a plant which is propagated by slips. 1802Naval Chron. VIII. 149 Manihot, magnoc, or manioc, is a plant which grows in America and the West Indies. 1832Veg. Subst. Food 157 The juice of Mandioc is..fermented with..molasses,..into an intoxicating liquor. 1857Livingstone Trav. xvii. 302 Manioc, which is looked upon here as the staff of life. 1871Kingsley At Last xvi, The famous Cassava, or Manioc, the old food of the Indians, poisonous till its juice is squeezed out in a curious spiral grass basket.
γ1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 841 The roots of Mandioca had almost killed them all, but by a peece of Vnicornes horne they were preserved. 1663Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. i. v. 121 The root Mandihoca, that abounds with a very potent Poison. 1863Bates Nat. Amazons x. (1864) 324 A superior kind of meal is manufactured at Ega of the sweet mandioca (Manihot Aypi). 1892Daily News 20 Feb. 5/1 He found thousands of Saüba ants carrying off his store of mandioca.
b. attrib., as manioc bread, manioc bush, manioc flour, manioc meal, manioc patch, manioc plant, manioc plantation, manioc root, manioc worm.
1681Grew Musæum ii. 223 In Brasile, either eaten by themselves, or with their Mandioca-Flower. 1777W. Robertson Hist. Amer. I. iv. 397 The art of extracting an intoxicating liquor from maize or the manioc root. 1792M. Riddell Voy. Madeira 93 The jatropa manioc, or manioc plant. 1803Edin. Rev. III. 89 A worm..well known to [West Indian] planters as the Manioc or Indigo worm. 1816Southey in Q. Rev. XVI. 370 A vessel laden with mandioc flour from the south. 1866Treas. Bot. 718/1 Cassava or Mandiocca meal. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 209 This manioc meal is the staple food. |