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Definition of Sweet cassava
1. Noun. South American plant with roots used as a vegetable and herbage used for stock feed.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweet Cassava
Literary usage of Sweet cassava
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The roots of another species of this shrub, called sweet cassava (Manihot ...
The roots of the sweet cassava are also used as stock-food and to make glucose ..."
2. My Personal Experiences in Equatorial Africa: As Medical Officer of the Emin by Thomas Heazle Parke (1891)
"It has, however, been stated, with respect to the sweet cassava, that the root
does contain prussic acid,2 but the poison can apparently be present only to ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1901)
"sweet cassava—Confirmation of the Presence of Hydrocyanic Acid.— Professor Carmody
has confirmed the results of Francis as to the presence of prussic acid ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1901)
"sweet cassava—Confirmation of the Presence of Hydrocyanic Acid.— Professor Carmody
has confirmed the results of Francis as to the presence of prussic acid ..."
5. Tropical Agriculture: The Climate, Soils, Cultural Methods, Crops, Live by Earley Vernon Wilcox (1916)
"The bitter cassava is more widely used in the Tropics than is the sweet cassava.
All varieties of both species may contain prussic acid but the bitter ..."
6. Tropical Agriculture: The Climate, Soils, Cultural Methods, Crops, Live by Earley Vernon Wilcox (1916)
"The plants attain a height of 6 to 8 feet and bear palmately divided leaves, with
7 divisions in the bitter cassava and 5 divisions in the sweet cassava. ..."
7. Productive Feeding of Farm Animals by Fritz Wilhelm Woll (1921)
"sweet cassava (Manihot aipi).—This is a sub-tropical plant belonging to the
milk-weed family, which is cultivated for its starchy roots. ..."
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