yuca
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- noun
- /ˈjuːkə/
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yuca
- Also known by its Spanish name yuca (not to be confused with the yucca cactus), manioc is usually boiled in a pot and eaten like a potato.
- yuca root
- peel yuca
- yuca and potatoes
This is the yuca plant that we ate in the Amazon.
- This is the yuca plant that we ate in the Amazon.
- I've cut up my yuca into little small pieces.
- They love tubers like yams, like picama, like Taro root, like yuca or yuca.
Examples
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A&P fare includes yuca, plantain, raw sugar cane, okra, and a few things I don't even recognize myself, since the Caribbean is not my home culture.
Fiction book (1999) -
Now the one tricky part is processing because yuca is prone to rot in just a few days after harvest.
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This is the yuca plant that we ate in the Amazon.
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Okay, look, the key is you gotta look for ingredients and then that gives you ideas of what to cook, like this is yuca, right?
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I've cut up my yuca into little small pieces.
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Instead, I bit into a ball of yuca fufu and tried to imagine myself in the driver's gustatory universe.
Academic text (1991) -
There was yuca malanga, all these starchy root vegetables in there with beans.
Blog text (33) -
I would like some clarification on the vegetable yuca, not yucca, and its use as a potato substitute.
Blog text (23) -
You can boil the yuca until soft and serve it with a garlic sauce.
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At the market, I bought some fresh yuca to make a traditional dish.
Synonyms
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A tropical plant with large starchy roots used for food
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A tropical plant with thick starchy roots used for food
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A tropical plant with a large starchy root used for food and to make flour
A plant with thick edible roots used to make food and products like tapioca
A plant with long edible roots grown for its starch used to make tapioca
Surface Forms
Etymology
Yuca comes from the Taíno language of the Caribbean and entered Spanish with the same name for the cassava plant. So, when English speakers say yuca or cassava, they mean this 'starchy root' that is used like a potato.