cassava

noun3

1. •
   Manioc (Manihot esculenta), a tropical plant which is the source of tapioca.
2. •
   The root of this plant.

   • There was a smell of evening and of coolness after a hot day and a slight scent of peat-smoke that came from cassava being roasted in one of the fishermen's huts in the village away to the right. — 1954
3. •
   Tapioca, a starchy pulp made with manioc roots.

   • Jucca, sive Yucca Peruana. The root whereof the bread Casua, or Cazava is made. — 1677