English Dictionary

manioc

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈmæ.ni.ɒk/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 通常

(countable, uncountable) The tropical plant Manihot esculenta, from which cassava and tapioca are prepared. / (uncountable) Cassava root, eaten as a food.

日本語の意味

キャッサバ：熱帯地域原産の植物で、主にその根が食用に利用され、キャッサバやタピオカの原料となる。

The farmers harvested manioc from the fields to process it into tapioca starch.

農家は畑からキャッサバを収穫し、それをタピオカ澱粉に加工しました。

意味（1）

(countable, uncountable) The tropical plant Manihot esculenta, from which cassava and tapioca are prepared.

The banana, the most important crop above ground, quarreled with the manioc, the most important underground crop. […] The manioc said that it, the yam, the sweet potato, and others were the ones that fed people and that without them people could not exist.

意味（2）

(uncountable) Cassava root, eaten as a food.

In the morning, after a frugal breakfast of coffee and manioc - we had to be economical of our stores - we held a council of war as to the best method of ascending to the plateau above us.

意味（3）

(uncountable) A food starch prepared from the root.

maniocs （ plural ）