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Definition of Cassava starch

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

Medical Definition of Cassava starch

1. A starch from the root of Janipha manihot and other species of J. (family Euphorbiaceae), plants of tropical America; an easily digested starch, free of irritant properties. Synonym: cassava starch. Origin: Braz. Tipioca (05 Mar 2000)

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Literary usage of Cassava starch

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Microscopy of Technical Products by Thomas Franz Hanausek (1907)
"cassava starch. (Fig. 39.) Cassava, manioca, mandioca, or tapioca starch is ... cassava starch. (TSCHIRCH.) The starch is a fine white powder consisting in ..."

2. Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal ...by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen (1880)
"The expressed juice of the root by standing deposits the starch called cassava starch, of which the official tapioca is made. This juice, freed from starch, ..."

3. A treatise on food and dietetics, physiologically, and therapeutically by Frederick William Pavy (1875)
"From the compressed residue cassava meal and bread are obtained; and from the juice, cassava starch and tapioca. The residue, for instance, ..."

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