cassava vs yam

cassava

• Tapioca, a starchy pulp made with manioc roots. 

• Manioc (Manihot esculenta), a tropical plant which is the source of tapioca. 

yam

• The edible, starchy, tuberous root of that plant, a tropical staple food. 

• An orange-brown colour, like the flesh of the yam. 

• A potato. 

• home 

• Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated. 

• A sweet potato; a tuber from the species Ipomoea batatas. 

• A oca; a tuber from the species Oxalis tuberosa. 

• Taro. 

• To eat.