tapioca plant

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tapioca plant - cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapiocabitter cassava, gari, mandioc, mandioca, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima, manioccassiri - a drink resembling beer; made from fermented cassava juicecasava, cassava - any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starchcassava, manioc - cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca