Noun: tapioca plant
- Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca
"The farmer harvested tapioca plants for their starchy roots";
- bitter cassava, manioc, mandioc, mandioca, gari, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima
Derived forms: tapioca plants
Type of: casava [rare], cassava
Encyclopedia: Tapioca plant