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means A starchy, tuberous root vegetable (also called cassava or manioc) that's boiled, fried, or ground into flour and serves as a staple carbohydrate across Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa.

from Yuca came into Spanish from Taíno, the Arawakan language of the Caribbean islanders who were cultivating the plant long before European contact. Spanish colonizers adopted the word wholesale in the 1500s. Note the spelling trap: yuca (the edible root, genus Manihot) is a completely different plant from yucca (the spiky ornamental genus, Yucca) — the names simply collided by coincidence, and the mix-up has been feeding confusion in gardens and grocery stores ever since.