mandioca
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mandioca
< Spanish, Portuguese < Tupi manioca; cf. manioc
Example Sentences
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For her, that dish is purê de mandioca, something she also learned to make with her mother in Brazil.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2022
Kolb remembers sprinkling salt on dishes and mashing pounds of yuca for one of her favorite holiday dishes: purê de mandioca, or yuca purée.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2022
Like the Quichuas, they were agriculturalists—cultivating mandioca, maize, calabashes, and potatoes.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles
Around was the plantation of mandioca and cacao, with here and there a few coffee-shrubs.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 by Various
They have, nevertheless, considerable plantations of mandioca and Indian corn, besides small plots of cotton, coffee, and sugarcane; the soil is very fertile, they have no rent to pay, and no direct taxes.
From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Bates, Henry Walter
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