(n.) A shrubby euphorbiaceous plant of the genus Manihot, with fleshy rootstocks yielding an edible starch; -- called also manioc.
(n.) A nutritious starch obtained from the rootstocks of the cassava plant, used as food and in making tapioca.
Example Sentences:
(1) Assessment of nutritional status of vitamin B components by plasma or blood levels indicated riboflavin deficiency and possibly thiamine deficiency in Nigerian patients who suffered from tropical ataxic neuropathy and neurologically normal Nigerians who subsisted on predominant cassava diet.
(2) The staples of the poor consisted of one or two bulky carbohydrate meals (derivatives of different species of cocoyam, cassava, yam and maize) eaten with vegetable soup in palm oil, melon seeds, snail, occasional meat and fish.
(3) Rural farmers like Kallon – whose rice, cocoa and cassava fields account for nearly half Sierra Leone's gross domestic production – are among the hardest-hit in the economic fallout of the world's biggest Ebola epidemic.
(4) It is working with Unilever to source cassava from small farmers in Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon, to make industrial starch.
(5) Growing dogs were divided into three groups and were fed on a control (rice) diet, a diet in which cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz; gari) was used as the carbohydrate source, and the rice diet to which cyanide (equivalent to that present in gari) was added.
(6) To ascertain the role of diet in the aetiology of mucoid vasculopathy, groups of bonnet monkeys were fed protein-deficient normal carbohydrate, or protein-deficient high-carbohydrate tapioca (cassava) starch based diets or control diets of normal protein and carbohydrate for 3 or 5 months periods.
(7) To test the hypothesis that consumption of cassava with liberation of cyanide causes diabetes in malnourished individuals.
(8) However, during the planting I noticed that farmers were still throwing two pieces of cassava stem in each hole.
(9) Epidemics in East Africa have been attributed to dietary cyanide exposure from insufficiently processed cassava but a study done in Zaire disputed such an aetiology.
(10) Cassava, maize, and rice are the staple foods that are grown.
(11) About 85% of the study population consumed cassava root at least once a day.
(12) 2,6-Diaminopimelic acid (DAPA), an indicator of bacterial mass, was highest in the cassava group.
(13) Thiocyanate overload originating from consumption of poorly detoxified cassava is such that this goitrogenic factor aggravates a relative or a severe iodine deficiency.
(14) Several other promoters and regulating sequences were tested for efficiency in cassava leaves.
(15) The method was used to survey 296 samples that included 10 cultivars of dried beans, 8 types of corn products, 3 types of cassava flour, and both polished and parboiled rice between May 1985 and June 1986 in Campinas, Brazil.
(16) A causative role for cassava and kwashiorkor is improbable.
(17) The 4- and 24-hr thyroid uptakes of mice on cassava were similar to those of mice on low iodine diets.
(18) In August, the post-harvest season, rice dominated the food pattern and often replaced the porridge made from maize or cassava.
(19) Linamarase (EC 3.2.1.21) was purified from cassava petiole, stem, and root cortex by ammonium sulfate precipitation, column chromatography on Sepharose 6B, and chromatofocusing.
(20) Ultrastructural examination of leaf tissue of Nicotiana benthamiana infected with Indian cassava mosaic virus (ICMV) revealed abnormalities in phloem and, occasionally, xylem cells.