α. 1500s– mandioc, 1600s mandioque, 1600s manyoc, 1600s– manioc, 1700s maniock, 1800s magnoc.
β. 1500s– manihot, 1600s magniot, 1600s manyot.
γ. 1600s mandihoca, 1600s– mandioca, 1700s miniaoca, 1800s mandiocca, 1900s– maniotta.
单词 | manioc |
释义 | maniocn.α. 1500s– mandioc, 1600s mandioque, 1600s manyoc, 1600s– manioc, 1700s maniock, 1800s magnoc. β. 1500s– manihot, 1600s magniot, 1600s manyot. γ. 1600s mandihoca, 1600s– mandioca, 1700s miniaoca, 1800s mandiocca, 1900s– maniotta. The starchy tuberous root of the cassava plant, Manihot esculenta, widely grown in the tropics; meal prepared from this. Also: the cassava plant itself; (gen.) any plant of genus Manihot. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > cassava manioca1544 cassava1555 yucca1555 cassadaa1643 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > cassava or cassava plant manioca1544 cassava1555 yucca1555 Indian bread1597 cassadaa1643 datil1882 α. β. 1568 T. Hacket tr. A. Thevet New Found Worlde lviii. 93 The Americanes make meale of those rootes that are called Manihot [Fr. Manihot (1558)].1611 E. Aston tr. J. Boemus Manners, Lawes, & Customes 501 Rootes of Brasile called Aypi and Manyot [L. maniot (1604)].1698 tr. F. Froger Relation Voy. Coasts Afr. 113 Their fields of Maes and Magniot [Fr. Magnioc].1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 318 Manihot. Jatropha.1802 Naval Chron. 8 149 Manihot, magnoc, or manioc, is a plant which grows in America and the West Indies.1881 Daily News 12 Dec. 3/5 A species of manihot, from which the cearâ rubber was obtained.1944 S. Putnam tr. E. da Cunha Rebellion in Backlands vii. 340 A number of the men died of poisoning from having eaten the wild manihot and other roots with which they were unfamiliar.1976 G. M. Edington & H. M. Gilles Pathol. in Tropics (ed. 2) 657 Cassava (manihot)... Has a mildly goitrogenic effect on rats.γ. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 841 The roots of Mandioca had almost killed them all, but by a peece of Vnicornes horne they were preserved.1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. i. v. 121 The root Mandihoca, that abounds with a very potent Poison.1758 N. Owen Jrnl. 2 Apr. in E. Martin Jrnl. of Slave-dealer (1930) 99 Sowing rice, miniaoca..and other things.1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 244/1 The dietary staples of the Paraguayans are still maize and mandioca (the latter the chief ingredient in the excellent chipa or Paraguayan bread).1892 Daily News 20 Feb. 5/1 He found thousands of Saüba ants carrying off his store of mandioca.1918 Blackwood's Mag. Apr. 436 Some sugar-cane is grown, and mandioca [in Brazil].1973 G. Greene Honorary Consul i. ii. 31 He had developed a hungry passion for chipá, those doughy rolls made out of mandioca.a1544 R. Barlow tr. M. Fernández de Enciso Brief Summe Geogr. (1932) 154 The people of this cost [sc. Brazil] bothe men and women go nakyd... Ther chief brede is made of a certein rote called mandioc. It encreseth under grounde as the rotes of ferne, but thei be as bigge as the small of a mannes arme. 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed iii. xvi. 399 Mandioc a root is their chiefest diet, whereof they make flower. 1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands i. ix. 50 A small Tree called Manyoc, by some Manyot, and by others Mandioque. 1683 P. Lorrain tr. P. Muret Rites Funeral viii. 132 Thou mightest have lived so well,..thou didst want neither Manioc [Fr. manioc], nor Potato's. 1783 J. O. Justamond tr. G. T. F. Raynal Philos. Hist. Europeans in Indies (new ed.) V. 321 The manioc is a plant which is propagated by slips. 1802 Naval Chron. 8 149 Manihot, magnoc, or manioc, is a plant which grows in America and the West Indies. 1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 157 The juice of Mandioc is..fermented with..molasses,..into an intoxicating liquor. 1871 C. Kingsley At Last II. xvi. 273 The famous Cassava, or Manioc, the old food of the Indians, poisonous till its juice is squeezed out in a curious spiral grass basket. 1893 Act 56 & 57 Vict. c. 88 Sched. 1 An extraordinary quantity of manioc, or cassada, commonly called farinha. 1951 People 3 June 3/6 He keeps hens, and grows manioc and maize. 1992 Cambr. Encycl. Human Evol. (1994) ii. vi. 68/1 Manioc..must be soaked because it contains cyanogenic glucosides. Compounds General attributive. manioc flour n. ΚΠ 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis ii. 223 In Brasile, either eaten by themselves, or with their Mandioca-Flower. 1816 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 16 370 A vessel laden with mandioc flour from the south. 1991 Yankee Apr. 90/2 Farofa is manioc flour (also known as cassava flour). manioc meal n. ΚΠ 1856 T. C. Archer in Jrnl. Soc. Arts 29 Feb. 255/2 We receive only a small quantity, if I except sago and the various forms of Mandioca starch and meal... Importations of tapioca, cassava powder, and Mandioca meal.., or farina, as it is most frequently called. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 718/1 Cassava or Mandiocca meal. 1994 News Express 5 Jan. 4 cups manioc meal (farofa). manioc plant n. ΚΠ 1792 M. Riddell Voy. Madeira 93 The jatropa manioc, or manioc plant. 1976 Honolulu Star-Bull. 21 Dec. a11/1 On Moorea, tourism has given some new value to the root of the maniotta (cassava) plant which also is used for tapioca. manioc root n. ΚΠ 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Tipioca, a name given..to a sort of cream or flower made from the yucca or manihot-root..after expressing the juice. 1976 Honolulu Star-Bull. 21 Dec. a11/1 Deep-fried slices of maniotta root. ΚΠ 1803 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 89 A worm..well known to [West Indian] planters as the Manioc or Indigo worm. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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