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
There was a large plantation of tobacco, besides the usual patches of Indian-corn, sugar-cane, and mandioca; and a grove of cotton, cacao, coffee, and fruit- trees surrounded the house.
From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates
This singular nest is built of clay, and is as hard as stone—pedra; while it is the shape of the mandioca oven—forno—in which the country people prepare their farina.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston
Then we have," continued the hermit, "rice, tapioca, cocoa, maize, wheat, mandioca, beans, bananas, pepper, cinnamon, oranges, figs, ginger, pineapples, yams, lemons, mangoes, and many other fruits and vegetables.
From Martin Rattler by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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