The mandioca or cassava (Manihot utilissima) from which it is made is supposed to be indigenous, though it is not found wild.
These ants are eaten by the Rio Negro Indians, and esteemed a luxury; while the Tapajos tribes use them to season their mandioca sauce.
They wander to a great distance in search of plunder, and enter houses for the purpose of carrying off the farina or mandioca meal.
When boiled and crushed it yields a quantity of juice of about the consistency of chocolate, somewhat of the colour of blackberry juice, when it has a sweetish taste--and is eaten, made into cakes with the flour of the mandioca root.
The sugar-cane and mandioca require from fourteen to eighteen months.
Our host regaled us with a breakfast of stewed fowl, excellent coffee and milk, and a dish of feijones, with mandioca and buttered toast; after which he conducted us to his inclosures.
Mandioca requires a dry hot soil, of a sandy nature.
The mandioca is rarely ready to take up in less than eighteen or twenty months; if the land be suitable, it then produces from six to twelve pounds weight per plant[19].
By them we were kindly received, and found that, notwithstanding their extremely sunken condition and abject poverty, they seemed to have mandioca and bananas in abundance.
Among the first dishes I had were mandioca root, a black carrion bird, goat's meat, and fox's head.
Two or three mandioca cakes, a few wild fruits, and a draught of water from the stream, formed the wanderer's simple breakfast.
The mandioca you have eaten in the shape of farina.
The ground in the immediate neighbourhood of the village was laid out in patches, in which were cultivated mandioca roots, maize, and other plants useful for domestic purposes.
A drink called chicha is also made of mandioca by soaking the flour in water and letting it ferment.
The mandioca is a root resembling the yam, from which is produced the tapioca of commerce.
Duppo, "and that leaf is its oven;" and so it was in shape like the pans in which the natives roast their mandioca meal.
We also saw melons growing in abundance, as well as mandioca and Indian corn.
Indeed, with the fish and some mandioca porridge alone, we could have managed to make a very ample meal.
Mandioca is indigenous to Brazil, and the Indians, strange to say, discovered methods of separating its nutritive and detrimental qualities.
There is another species of mandioca called aipin (pronounced i-peen), which cannot be converted into farinha.
Around was the plantation of mandioca and cacao, with here and there a few coffee-shrubs.
At a little distance farther down on the hill was the mandioca kitchen, with several large ovens, troughs, etc.
One of these rooms was used for the various processes by which the mandioca root is transformed into farinha, tapioca, and tucupi, a kind of intoxicating liquor.
The natives call it the furno do Piosoca, or oven of the Jacana, the shape of the leaves being like that of the ovens on which Mandioca meal is roasted.
When the invitation is issued, the family prepares a great quantity of fermented drink, called in this part Taroba, made from soaked mandioca cakes, and porridge of Manicueira.
What they did with the hard dry grains of mandioca I was never able to ascertain, and cannot even conjecture.
I missed the usual mandioca sheds behind the house, with their surrounding cotton, cacao, coffee, and lemon trees.
To these we used a sauce in the form of a yellow paste, quite new to me, called Arube, which is made of the poisonous juice of the mandioca root, boiled down before the starch or tapioca is precipitated, and seasoned with capsicum peppers.
It is one of those few vegetable productions (including three kinds of mandioca and the American species of banana) which the Indians have cultivated from time immemorial, and brought with them in their original migration to Brazil.
He had now fixed himself, after all his wanderings, in a healthy and fertile little nook on the banks of a rivulet near Caripi, built himself a log-hut, and planted a large patch of mandioca and Indian corn.
It is made by soaking mandioca cakes in water until fermentation takes place, and tastes like new beer.
Tucupi, another sauce made also from mandioca juice, is much more common in the interior of the country than Arube.
The liquor served was chiefly a spirit distilled by the people themselves from mandioca cakes.
A few rude huts are scattered through the valley, but they are tenanted only for a few days in the year, when their owners come to gather and roast the mandioca of their small clearings.
Parrots scream noisily amongst the trees, and red macaws hover like hawks over the little patches of maize and mandioca planted amongst the palms.
Therefore he retired again to plant his mandioca under his own guayaba-tree.
At first I was inclined to discredit the stories of their entering habitations and carrying off grain by grain the farinha or mandioca meal, the bread of the poorer classes of Brazil.
The smell from the mandioca molle is extremely offensive, and is one of the annoyances in walking the streets of Recife, in which it is sold.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mandioca" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
