Definition of "mandioc" [man•di•oc]

• Manioc (noun)

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• "It forms, together with maize and mandioc, the principal article of food amongst the negroes and colored people."
• "Two principal messes occupied the centre of the table, one, a platter, containing a quantity of mandioc flour, raw; and the other a pile of fish, dressed with oil, garlic, and pimento."
• "Here the common mode of using it is to cut it in small squares, and boil it in the mandioc pottage, which is the principal food of the poorer inhabitants and the slaves."