cassava
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics
Types & categories
- starch hypernym
Parts & wholes
- tapioca substance holonym
Sense 2 noun
cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca
Types & categories
- root hypernym
Parts & wholes
- bitter cassava part holonym
- tapioca substance meronym
Sense 3 noun
any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch
Types & categories
- bush hypernym
- bitter cassava hyponym
- sweet cassava hyponym
Parts & wholes
- Manihot member holonym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | substance holonym | Parts & wholes | tapioca |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | starch |
| 2 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | bitter cassava |
| 2 | substance meronym | Parts & wholes | tapioca |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | root |
| 3 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Manihot |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | bush |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | bitter cassava |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | sweet cassava |