cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca | the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair |
cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca | (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed |
a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics | a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes |
| the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation |
| the place where something begins, where it springs into being |
| someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) |
| (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground |
| a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number |