mandioca
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mandioca
< Spanish, Portuguese < Tupi manioca; cf. manioc
Example Sentences
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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
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
Other women go around with large wicker trays on their heads, selling chipá, the native bread, made from Indian corn, or mandioca root, the staple food of the country.
From Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America by G. Whitfield Ray
What may almost be termed a general industry is the preparation of manioc or mandioca, the cultivation of which was considered of such importance in colonial days as to be obligatory.
From Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) by John Rouse Larus
A tray of mandioca root, farinha, was set in the hot sun to dry.
From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
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