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- noun Plural form of
cassava .
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Examples
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The rubber launched her, and grapefruits and cassavas also helped send her on her way.
The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009
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The rubber launched her, and grapefruits and cassavas also helped send her on her way.
The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009
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The rubber launched her, and grapefruits and cassavas also helped send her on her way.
The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009
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The rubber launched her, and grapefruits and cassavas also helped send her on her way.
The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009
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The children grew cassavas and greens on the land their parents left them, but they still went to sleep hungry many nights.
10 Million Orphans 2008
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Root and tuber vegetables that come from the tropics generally contain less water than common potatoes, and as much as double the starch potatoes are 18% carbohydrate by weight, cassavas 36%.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Root and tuber vegetables that come from the tropics generally contain less water than common potatoes, and as much as double the starch potatoes are 18% carbohydrate by weight, cassavas 36%.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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However, where there are crops, one cannot [word indistinct], because we still do not have machines that pick up and clean the sweet potatoes, cassavas, and all the other crops.
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Evidently at a previous time effort had been made to clear the jungle and to cultivate bananas and cassavas.
Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886
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It was a lovely morning, and passing gaily through the plantations of potatoes, manioc and cassavas, we came to the nests of the sociable grosbeak, the sight of which charmed the children immensely.
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