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• The dish is chock-full of cassava, seasoned sausages, corn and potatoes.1987 July 29, Steven Barboza, “Culinary Delights of Africa Reflect a Continent's Diversity”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry unofficially
• There were some trampled-looking patches of cassava and taro and a beached, derelict car or two.1970, Nadine Gordimer, A Guest of Honour, Penguin, published 1973, Part Two, p. 103. From the entry beached
• Some have been traced to specific causes, including infection with HTLV-I, or the chronic ingestion of cassava beans or lathyrogenic agents.2010, Lewis P. Rowland with Paul H. Gordon, “Hereditary and Acquired Spastic Paraplegia”, in Lewis P. Rowland, Timothy A. Pedley, editors…. From the entry myeloneuropathy
• Sinclair likes: dasheen, cassava, and sweet potatoes.2009, Elizabeth Nunez, chapter 7, in Anna In-Between, New York: Akashic Books, pages 82–83. From the entry ground provisions
• Ground manioc (cassava) is mixed with water and pressed through tube woven from palm fibers to remove toxic cyanogenic compounds.2006, Dietland Muller-Schwarze, Chemical Ecology of Vertebrates, Cambridge University Press, page 321. From the entry manioc
• Cassava is a typical Garífuna food made from yucca, a semi-permanent crop found in tropical and subtropical regions.2006, Maria Fiallos, “The Northeast Corridor”, in Adventure Guide: Honduras & the Bay Islands (Hunter Travel Guides), Edison, N.J.: Hunter…. From the entry yucca
• Katogo is that meal, a Ugandan delicacy, prepared from a mixture of foodstuffs like matooke, cassava, beans, greens, meat etc.2006, Pecos Kutesa, Uganda’s Revolution, 1979–1986: How I Saw It, Kampala, Uganda: Fountain Publishers, →ISBN, page 222. From the entry katogo
• In some parts of the Indies they use a kind of bread called cassava, which is made from a certain root called yucca.2002, José de Acosta, Walter D. Mignolo, “Of Yucca and Cassava, and Potatoes and Chuño and Rice”, in Frances López-Morillas, transl.…. From the entry yucca
• Cassava mixed with beans (katogo or nyoyo) cost the same but plain cassava with salt cost as little as one shilling a plate.1980, Christine Obbo, African Women: Their Struggle for Economic Independence (Women in the Third World series), London: Zed Press, →ISBN…. From the entry katogo
• The foofoo had a very good texture, neither too light nor too heavy; no doubt the cassava had been lightened with green bananas.1965, Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God, Penguin Classics (2010), page 168. From the entry foofoo
• Africans generally serve highly seasoned stews with a starch - corn, millet, yams, cassava or rice - which they mash and whip to a paste, called fufu in West Africa.[1987 July 29, Steven Barboza, “Culinary Delights of Africa Reflect a Continent's Diversity”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry fufu

Meaning of cassava

1. noun Manioc (Manihot esculenta), a tropical plant which is the source of tapioca.
2. noun The root of this plant.
3. noun Tapioca, a starchy pulp made with manioc roots.

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How do you use cassava in a sentence?

Cassava is used as a noun. For example: “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.”

What is a short sentence with cassava?

“Sinclair likes: dasheen, cassava, and sweet potatoes.”

What does cassava mean?

Cassava means manioc (Manihot esculenta), a tropical plant which is the source of tapioca.