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
Coffee is the staple production, though Indian corn, mandioca and fruit are produced largely for local consumption.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
“Ah, that is a piosoca!” said Duppo, “and that leaf is its oven;” and so it was in shape like the pans in which the natives roast their mandioca meal.
From On the Banks of the Amazon by Groome, William H. C.
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
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