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mandioca
Tupi · pre-1500s
"a starchy edible root"
named the starchy root crop cultivated throughout South America
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Stage 2 of 3
manioc
Portuguese/French · 1560s
"a starchy tropical root crop"
adopted by Portuguese and French colonists for the same crop
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manioc
English · 1560s-1600s
"cassava, a starchy tropical root crop"
borrowed into English through colonial accounts of Brazilian agriculture
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