noun
yucca
The starchy root of cassava used as food.
The restaurant served boiled yucca with the meal.
Etymology
This spelling represents yuca, the cassava food-name. It should be distinguished from the botanically different plants conventionally called yuccas in English.
More examples
- She peeled the yucca root before preparing it.
- The menu offered fried yucca as a side dish.
- The grocer labeled the cassava roots yucca.
Forms
yucca · yuccas
Similar words
- cassava
- Cassava is the standard name for this root; yucca is a variant spelling of yuca in food contexts.
- yuca
- Yuca is the usual food spelling, distinguishing cassava from the unrelated yucca plant.