Definition of "manihot" []

• Manioc (noun)

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• "Those who live in the Barotse valley cultivate in addition the sugar-cane, sweet potato, and manioc (‘Jatropha manihot’)."
• "The manioc is of the white variety (Fatropha Aypim seu utilissima), and, as at Lagos, the root may be called the country bread: I never saw the poisonous or black manioc (Fatropha manihot), either in East or in West"
• "Now they are working with World Wildlife Fund to develop small-scale "agro-forestry" systems, mixing trees with commercially viable perennial plants, planting rice, corn, and manihot root, as well as cocoa, palms, and avocado -- creating an agricultural system that is minimally disruptive to the forest."