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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > cassava or cassava plant
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Indian bread1697
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a1643 W. Monson Naval Tracts iv, in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. (1704) III. 450/2 We shall not want a sufficient quantity of Maiz and Cassado.
1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 74 His Bread and drink both made of one root are, Cassawder call'd, cook'd by the womens care.
1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 349 The Cassava, Cassada, or Cassadar.
1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1778) I. ii. 125 The insipid bread made of the cassada-root.
1802 Naval Chron. 8 149 A kind of bread..called cassada, or cassavi.
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1828) I. x. 337 The larvæ..feed on the indigo and cassada.
1873 Act 36 & 37 Vic. lxxxviii. Sched. i An extraordinary quantity of..manioc, or cassada, commonly called farinha.
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1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. ii. vi. 59 The Cassada-Plant unprepared poisoneth.
1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 249 The poisonous Cassado juice.
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