manioc vs yucca

manioc

noun
  • A food starch prepared from the root. 

  • Cassava root, eaten as a food. 

  • The tropical plant Manihot esculenta, from which cassava and tapioca are prepared. 

yucca

noun
  • Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca, having long, pointed, and rigid leaves at the top of a woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms. 

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