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Definition of Cassiri
1. Noun. A drink resembling beer; made from fermented cassava juice.
Substance meronyms: Bitter Cassava, Gari, Mandioc, Mandioca, Manihot Esculenta, Manihot Utilissima, Manioc, Tapioca Plant
Literary usage of Cassiri
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by International Congress of Americanists (1905)
"In Dutch Guiana the following Indian words from the dictionary are in use: cassiri,
a drink made of sweet ..."
2. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1851)
"Dried specimen of the "Pink po- tatoe" used in the preparation of the fermented
liquor called cassiri The distilled liquor from the pulp of the fruit of the ..."
3. The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1845)
"When 1 told him of our sufferings, and whence we had come, the good-natured squaw
hastened to bring some cassiri, which, for the occasion, she tendered in a ..."
4. History of Spain and Portugal by Samuel Astley Durham (1832)
"... condescends to say of a battle, which the Arabian authorities in cassiri (tom.
ii. p. 49. et 200.) represent as so glorious to the Mohammedans. ..."
5. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"cassiri, a liquor prepared by rasping the root of Jatropha manihot, mixing it
with water, boiling and fermenting. ..."
6. History of Spain and Portugal by Samuel Astley Durham (1854)
"... condescends *,o say of a battle, which the Arabian authorities in cassiri (tom.
ii. p. 49. et 200.) represent as so glorious to the Mohammedans. ..."