mandioca vs tapioca plant

mandioca and tapioca plant both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mandioca	Yes	No	No	No
tapioca plant	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, mandioca and tapioca plant are synonyms defined as:

mandioca and tapioca plant: cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca

Other synonyms of mandioca include bitter cassava, gari, mandioc, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima, manioc.

mandioca (noun)	tapioca plant (noun)
cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca	cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca