Definitions for yuca

yuca yuc·a

Spelling: [yuhk-uh]
IPA: /ˈyʌk ə/

Yuca is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in yuca (acuy).

Definitions for yuca

noun

  1. cassava.

Origin of yuca

1545-55; Spanish, said to be Carib

Examples for yuca

It is then dried and roasted in the same way as the other yuca.

The yuca is the beet-like root of a little tree about ten feet high.

The only beverage of the Huitotos is the cahuana, a preparation of yuca and the pulp of a forest fruit known as the aguaje.

Equally important are maize and yuca.14 The latter is used for making bread.

There is no bread on the Napo; the nearest approach to flour is yuca starch.

After our long days work we had fish and yuca, and water to which had been added a little raw cane sugar.

Finally the trail ended in a long, dark tunnel, larger and higher than the one through which they had passed on the way to yuca.

The houses are of split bamboo and palm-thatch, often hid in a plantation of yuca and plantain.

We suspect he has capacities outside of his cornfield and yuca patch, but to this point in the record before us he gives no clue.

A patch of yuca once planted will need but the most trifling attention for years.

Word Value for yuca
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Words with friends

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