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
Among the first dishes I had were mandioca root, a black carrion bird, goat's meat, and fox's head.
From Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America by Ray, G. Whitfield
Espirito Santo is almost exclusively agricultural, sugar-cane, coffee, rice, cotton, tobacco, mandioca and tropical fruits being the principal products.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
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
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