How to Use manioc in a Sentence

manioc

noun
Definition of maniocnext
  • Others cooked corn cobs and manioc on the hot rocks, to the amusement of the crowd.
    — New York Times, 23 May 2021
  • Now coffee, manioc, cupuacu and cacao plants grow there.
    — Georgina Gustin, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2021
  • The Tsimane eat unprocessed complex carbs high in fiber, like brown rice, plantain, manioc, corn, nuts and fruits.
    — Jane E. Brody, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2017
  • After the Portuguese transported manioc to West Africa in the 17th century, the root spread rapidly, but the proper processing techniques did not.
    — New York Times, 17 June 2021
  • Its lower decks have hooks for 467 hammocks where passengers sleep on the three-day voyage up the Amazon river from Manaus, a city of 2m people, to Uarini, a manioc-growing town.
    — The Economist, 5 Nov. 2020
  • For years, the villagers farmed the surrounding bush, growing large crops of manioc, but about a decade ago the land became polluted after some foreign businessmen opened a cobalt-processing plant nearby.
    — Nicolas Niarchos, The New Yorker, 24 May 2021
  • Plots of corn, manioc, and bananas surrounding the cluster of communal huts—known as a maloca—seemed capable of sustaining as many as 80 to a hundred people.
    — Ricardo Stuckert, National Geographic, 21 Dec. 2016
  • Bushwhacking through the forest, the team came upon ample evidence of the isolated group—including footprints, earthen pots, and large garden plots of manioc, sugarcane, and yams.
    — Scott Wallace, National Geographic, 8 Dec. 2017
  • The captain, Richard Lacet, who inherited the boat from his father, has made up for lost revenue by charging more for cargo, to squawks from merchants sending chickens upriver and farmers dispatching manioc flour down it.
    — The Economist, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Tribespeople provide for themselves by hunting, gathering and fishing, as well as cultivating crops such as manioc (cassava or yuca) and bananas, which are grown in large gardens cleared from the forest.
    — Greg Norman | Fox News, Fox News, 11 Apr. 2020

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