Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun manioca

1 sense of manioca

Sense 1
cassava, cassava starch, manioc, manioca -- (a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics)
       => starch, amylum -- (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)