noun (n)

• a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics(noun.substance)

  Synonym:
  cassava, cassava starch, manioca
  

  source: wordnet30
• cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca(noun.plant)

  Synonym:
  cassava
  

  source: wordnet30
• cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca(noun.plant)

  Synonym:
  bitter cassava, gari, mandioc, mandioca, manihot esculenta, manihot utilissima, tapioca plant
  

  source: wordnet30
• The tropical plants (Manihot utilissima, and M. Aipi), from which cassava and tapioca are prepared; also, cassava.(noun)

  source: webster1913