| 单词 | cassava |
| 释义 | cassava (once / 9134 pages) n WORD FAMILY cassava: cassavas USAGE EXAMPLESFour years ago, army worms destroyed maize, cassava, sorghum and rice fields. BBC(Dec 28, 2016) Sweet potatoes are easy to store, cassava is drought-resistant, there are places to grow rice. The Guardian(Dec 17, 2016) Edipeel more than doubled the shelf life of cassava, helping the root retain starch long enough to get it to a processing plant. New York Times(Dec 13, 2016) 1n any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch Syn|Hypo|Hyper casava Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima, bitter cassava, gari, mandioc, mandioca, manioc, tapioca plant cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca Manihot dulcis, sweet cassavaSouth American plant with roots used as a vegetable and herbage used for stock feed bush, shrub a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems 2n cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca Syn|Hyper manioc root (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground 3n a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics Syn|Hyper cassava starch, manioc, manioca amylum, starch a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles |
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