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mandioca

mandioca noun: manioc.

Noun

mandioca (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) manioc
    • There was a kind of festival going on, and the people fuddled themselves with caxirí, an intoxicating drink invented by the Indians. It is made by soaking mandioca cakes in water until fermentation takes place, and tastes like new beer.1863, Henry Walter Bates, chapter IV, in The Naturalist on the River Amazons, volume 1

Questions about mandioca

What does mandioca mean?
Mandioca means manioc.
What part of speech is mandioca?
Mandioca is a noun.

Words near mandioca in the dictionary

  1. Mandingoes
  2. Mandingos
  3. Mandinka
  4. Mandinkas
  5. mandioc
  6. mandioca
  7. mandiocca
  8. Mandip
  9. mandipropamid
  10. mandipropamids
  11. mandir

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