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Definition of Maniocs
1. manioc [n] - See also: manioc
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maniocs
Literary usage of Maniocs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels in Brazil by Henry Koster (1817)
"... Comme qui diroit le chef des maniocs. En effet son bois, ... sont plus grandes
et plus grosses que les autres maniocs. Mais comme il est beaucoup plus ..."
2. From the Niger to the Nile by Boyd Alexander (1907)
"... and with these they buy maniocs (a kind of potato) from ... they take the
maniocs down the river to Bangi and sell them for the flat, triangular pieces ..."
3. Origin of Cultivated Plants by Alphonse de Candolle (1886)
"All potatoes, and probably all maniocs, contain something harmful, which is
observed even in ... maniocs were cultivated by the natives of Brazil, Guiana, ..."
4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1887)
"All these villages are surrounded with fields of maize and durra, as well as with
maniocs, bananas, and oil-palms ; sheep, goats, and fowls are plentiful. ..."
5. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquitiesby William George Smith, Charles Anthon by William George Smith, Charles Anthon (1870)
"... beginning with the letters I MS or only DM, that is, Dis maniocs S»c¡i followed
by the name of the deceased, wilh t length of his life, dec., ..."
6. The Annual Register (1895)
"Bananas, maniocs, three different kinds of yams, ^weet potatoes, several kinds
of beans, maize, water melons, and tobacco, were cultivated in the ..."
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