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cassaba

/ kəˈsɑːbə /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of casaba
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Alligator pears, cassaba melon or other fruit may be substituted for above.

CASSABA, a town of Asia Minor, in the sanjak of Manisa, 63 m.

Cotton is the most important article, and there are ginning factories in the town; the silkworm is largely raised and exported; and the “melons of Cassaba” are sent not only to Smyrna but to Constantinople.

Many rugs are sold under the name of Cassaba, which are really woven at Sparta.

The natural remedy for the permanent decrease of the native fever, is the clearing up and cultivation of the land, which will be for some time yet to come, tardy; as emigration to Liberia is very slow, and the natives very unlike those of Yoruba—cultivate little or nothing but rice, cassaba, and yams, and these in comparative small patches, so that there is very little need for clearing off the forest.

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