Difference between Cassava and Yucca

What is the difference between Cassava and Yucca?

Cassava as a noun is manioc, the source of tapioca, manihot esculenta while Yucca as a noun is any of several evergreen plants, of the genus yucca, having long, pointed, and rigid leaves at the top of a woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms.

Cassava

Part of speech: noun

Definition: manioc, the source of tapioca, Manihot esculenta Tapioca, a starchy pulp made with the roots of this tropical plant.

Yucca

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Any of several evergreen plants, of the genus Yucca, having long, pointed, and rigid leaves at the top of a woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms.

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