Manioc

Definitions: Manioc

Manioc

Noun

1. A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics.

2. Cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca.

3. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca.

Date "manioc" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references)

Synonyms: Manioc

Synonyms: bitter cassava (n), cassava (n), cassava starch (n), gari (n), mandioc (n), mandioca (n), manioca (n), tapioca plant (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Manioc

English words defined with "manioc": Cachiri. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Manioc" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (cassava, manioc), Romanian (cassava, manioc).

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Manioc (1983)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	The World Market for Cassava (Manioc) Starch: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	La Mosaèique africaine du manioc et son contr�ole : actes du s�eminaire = African cassava mosaic disease and its control : proceedings : Yamoussoukro 4-8/5/1987 (reference) La toxicit�e du manioc et la thyroèide : recherches et questions de sant�e publique : compte rendu d'un colloque tenu áa Ottawa, Canada, du 31 mai au 2 juin 1982 (reference) La transformation du manioc : technologies autochtones (reference) Le manioc en Afrique de l'Est : r�ole et perspectives dans le d�eveloppement agricole (reference) Parmana: Prehistoric Maize and Manioc Subsistence Along the Amazon and Orinoco (Studies in Archaeology) (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Chad	Other food crops include millet, sorghum, peanuts, rice, sweet potatoes, manioc, cassava, and yams. (references)
	Senegal	Primary sector: 18.5% of GDP, of which agriculture represents 9.5% of GDP: Products--peanuts, millet, sorghum, manioc, rice, cotton. (references)
	Burundi	Agriculture (1998 est., 49.4% of GDP): Products--coffee, tea, sugar, cotton fabrics and oil, corn, sorghum, sweet potatoes, bananas, manioc (tapioca), beef, milk, hides, livestock feed, rice. (references)
Human Rights	Burundi	The Government raised the daily dried food allowance from 10.5 ounces of beans to 12.25 ounces of beans a day in addition to 12.25 ounces of manioc; however, prisoners still relied on family members to provide an adequate diet. (references)
Political Economy	BRAZIL	Common activities include fishing, street peddling, shoe shining, raising livestock, and harvesting sugarcane, manioc, tobacco, cotton, coffee, citrus fruits, and a variety of other crops. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Manioc" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Manioc" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	7	133,076

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "manioc"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏المنيهوت نبات (cassava). (various references)

Bulgarian		маниока (cassava). (various references)

Danish		maniok (cassava, mandioca, tapoica plant). (various references)

Dutch		maniok (cassava, cassave, mandioca, tapoica plant), cassave (cassava, mandioca, tapoica plant). (various references)

Finnish		maniokki (bitter cassava, tapioca plant), kassava (bitter cassava, tapioca plant). (various references)

French		manioc (mandioca). (various references)

German		Maniok (cassava, mandioca, tapoica plant). (various references)

Greek		μανιόκα (cassava, mandioca, tapoica plant), μανιότη (bitter cassava, cassada, tapioca plant). (various references)

Hungarian		manióka (cassava). (various references)

Italian		manioca (cassava, mandioca, tapoica plant). (various references)

Pig Latin		aniocmay

Portuguese		mandioca (cassava, mandioca, maniple, tapoica plant), cânhamo de manilha. (various references)

Romanian		manioc (cassava). (various references)

Russian		маниока (cassava). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		maniok (cassava), tapioka (tapioca). (various references)

Spanish		mandioca (cassava, mandioca, tapoica plant). (various references)

Swedish		maniok. (various references)

Turkish		manyok. (various references)

Ukranian		маніок. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Manihot aipi, Manihot utilissima. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "manioc": manioca, maniocas, maniocs. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Manioc" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amancio, anoic, Danioko, Mabior, Macivor, Mahidol, Maionchi, manacor, manao, mandoc, manich, Manicou, Manion, maniot, manitos, Manlio, Mannino, Mannucci, manoc, Manyo, Manyon, manzo, Marnoch, Marnock, Maunoir, Mujico. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: anomic, camion.
	Words within the letters "a-c-i-m-n-o"
	-1 letter: amino, amnic, amnio, macon, manic.
	-2 letters: amin, cain, ciao, cion, coin, coma, coni, icon, main, mano, mica, mina, moan, naoi, noma.
	-3 letters: aim, ain, ami, ani, cam, can, con, ion, mac, man, moa, moc, mon, nam, nim, nom, oca.
	-4 letters: ai, am, an, in, ma, mi, mo, na, no, om, on.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-i-m-n-o"
	+1 letter: ammonic, anosmic, camions, campion, coaming, encomia, limacon, manioca, maniocs, masonic, minorca, monacid, monadic, nomadic.
	+2 letters: aconitum, acrimony, acromion, ammoniac, amnionic, amniotic, anatomic, anoxemic, armonica, cameoing, campions, caroming, champion, cinnamon, coamings, coinmate, comaking, comedian, complain, coumarin, daemonic, daimonic, demoniac, gnomical, harmonic, laconism, limacons, macaroni, mandioca, maniocas, marocain, minorcas, moccasin, monacids, monastic, monecian, monoacid, morainic, omniarch, romantic, simoniac.
	+3 letters: aconitums, acromions, acronymic, aeronomic, agronomic, ammoniacs, ammonitic, antimacho, antinomic, antonymic, armonicas, autonomic, cairngorm, campesino, carbamino, carcinoma, carroming, champions, chromatin, cinnamons, clamoring, cobalamin, cognomina, coinmates, combating, comedians, companied, companies, companion, comparing, compendia, complains, complaint, compliant, contagium, coumarins, cremation, demoniacs, demonical, dominance, dominical, egomaniac, encomiast, geomantic, harmonica, harmonics, hypomanic, impaction, insomniac, laconisms, macaronic, macaronis, macedoine, macintosh, magnifico, mandiocas, manicotti, manticore, marocains, melanotic, moccasins, monachism, monarchic, monastics, monatomic, monoacids, monobasic, monodical, monogamic, mortician, nonatomic, nonimpact, omniarchs, onomastic, panoramic, policeman, romancing, romantics, simoniacs, taxonomic, volcanism.
	+4 letters: acrimonies, actomyosin, ammoniacal, anamorphic, anatomical, androecium, antidromic, ascogonium, astronomic, biodynamic, cairngorms, calamondin, calmodulin, calumnious, campesinos, carcinomas, ceremonial, chairwoman, chairwomen, chamoising, champignon, championed, chiromancy, chloramine, chromaffin, chromatins, cinemagoer, clamouring, coadmiring, coassuming, coatimundi, cobalamins, cochairman, cochairmen, cochampion, codominant, cognominal, colemanite, comanaging, combatting, combinable, commanding, compacting, compaction, companions, companying, comparison, comparting, compassing, compassion, complained, complainer, complaints, compliance, compliancy, confirmand, councilman, craniotomy, cremations, cumulation, daunomycin, decimation, demoniacal, dicoumarin, dominances, dormancies, economical, egomaniacs, emaciation, encomiasts, enharmonic, geomancies, harmonicas, hemocyanin, iconoclasm, impactions, importance, importancy, inharmonic, insomniacs, macaronics, macaronies, macedoines, maceration, machinator, mackintosh, maculation, magnificos, mammocking, manometric, manticores, maraschino, mastodonic, matronymic, medication, megaphonic, mendacious, microfauna, microtonal, miscaption, monachisms, monarchial, monarchies, monarchism, monarchist, monoacidic, monocarpic, monochasia, monocratic, monomaniac, mordancies, morganatic, morphactin, morticians, mosaicking, nematocide, nomarchies, nonmedical, nonmusical, normalcies, nosocomial, oceanarium, onomastics, organicism, organismic, pantomimic, patronymic, phonematic, pitchwoman, pyromaniac, sanctimony, scammonies, simoniacal, stomaching, taphonomic, tomcatting, undogmatic, unromantic, volcanisms.
	+5 letters: acclamation, acclimation, accompanied, accompanies, accompanist, accustoming, acrimonious, actinometer, actinometry, actinomyces, actinomycin, actomyosins, aerodynamic, aeronomical, agnosticism, amenorrheic, amoxicillin, amoxycillin, amphictyony, amylopectin, anachronism, anastomotic, antimitotic, archegonium, axonometric, beclamoring, cacodemonic, calamondins, californium, calmodulins, calumniator, carcinomata, carpogonium, cementation, centimorgan, ceremonials, chameleonic, champignons, championing, chiromancer, chloramines, chrismation, chromatinic, chrominance, cinemagoers, coadmitting, coatimundis, cochampions, codominants, coenamoring, coenzymatic, colemanites, collimating, collimation, colonialism, combination, combinative, combinatory, commination, comminatory, commonality, communalism, communalist, communality, communalize, communicant, communicate, commutating, commutation, compactions, companioned, comparisons, compassions, compilation, complainant, complainers, complaining, complaisant, compliances, compliantly, computation, concomitant, condimental, confirmable, confirmands, containment, contaminant, contaminate, contumacies, cosmetician, craniometry, creationism, crimination, culmination, cumulations, daunomycins, decimations, declamation, demarcation, demonically, diamondback, dicoumarins, dipsomaniac, egomaniacal, emaciations, emancipator, embrocation, encomiastic, endocardium, endoplasmic, euchromatin, exclamation, gametogenic, gastronomic, geomagnetic, glucosamine, harmonicist, hemocyanins, hemodynamic, hyoscyamine, iconoclasms, imbrication, implication, importances, imprecation, incompliant, infomercial, informatics, interatomic, lacrimation, lamellicorn, macerations, machination, machinators, macintoshes, macronuclei, maculations, magnificoes, malediction, malefaction, malfunction, maraschinos, marchioness, mastication, matronymics, medications, megalomanic, melancholia, melancholic, mercuration, metafiction, metonymical, metrication, microfaunae, microfaunal, microfaunas, micromanage, microwaving, mineralogic, miscaptions, miscitation, miscreation, mislocating, mislocation, monarchical, monarchisms, monarchists, monasticism, monochasial, monochasium, monocracies, monodically, monogastric, monographic, monomaniacs, moronically, morphactins, motorcading, multicarbon, mythomaniac, necromantic, nematocidal, nematocides, nomographic, nomological, nonacademic, nonanatomic, nonaromatic, nonchemical, noncriminal, nondogmatic, nondramatic, nonemphatic, nonharmonic, nonmagnetic, nonmetallic, nonmetrical, nonmusician, nonmystical, nonorgasmic, oceanariums, oecumenical, oneiromancy, organicisms, outcharming, outmarching, outmatching, palindromic, patronymics, phonogramic, pockmarking, policewoman, preromantic, proclaiming, pyromancies, pyromaniacs, reclamation, recombinant, romanticise, romanticism, romanticist, romanticize, sardonicism, scopolamine, seminomadic, semiotician, synonymical, toponymical, trichomonad, trichomonal, tumefaction, uncombative, unidiomatic, unmalicious.
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