manihot

English Thesaurus

1. genus of economically important tropical plants: cassava (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	rosid dicot genus,
definition	:	a genus of dicotyledonous plants (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	casava, cassava,
definition	:	any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	euphorbiaceae, family euphorbiaceae, spurge family,
definition	:	a family of plants of order Geraniales (noun.plant)