macaxeira

== Portuguese == === Etymology === Borrowed from Old Tupi makaxera. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: ma‧ca‧xei‧ra === Noun === macaxeira f (plural macaxeiras) (chiefly Northeast Brazil) manioc (Manihot esculenta, a tropical plant with edible roots) Synonyms: mandioca, aipim === Further reading === “macaxeira”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “macaxeira”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026