mandioca
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mandioca
< Spanish, Portuguese < Tupi manioca; 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
A tract of forest had been fired, and this clearing planted with bananas, mandioca, sweet potatoes, etc.
From Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America by Ray, G. Whitfield
It was, he told me, called the oven-bird, because it walks over those enormous leaves shaped like the pans used for baking the mandioca.
From The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco by Perat
It was only the wealthy among the ancient Mexicans who ate pure cacao; the poor, on account of the value of the beans as coins, used to mix maize and mandioca meal with them.
From The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes by Craig, Austin
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