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MANIHOT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Genus of economically important tropical plants: cassava

Synonyms:

genus Manihot; Manihot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Manihot" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Manihot"):

casava; cassava (any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch)

Holonyms ("Manihot" is a member of...):

Euphorbiaceae; family Euphorbiaceae; spurge family (a family of plants of order Geraniales)

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