Gari

noun

noun ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of garri (“West African food made from cassava”). alt-of, alternative, uncountable
  2. 2
    Thinly sliced marinated ginger served as a condiment with sushi. uncountable
  3. 3
    cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca wordnet

Synonyms

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bitter cassavabitter cassavamandiocmandiocamanihot esculentamanihot utilissima

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"Alexander Alekhine, Mikhail Botvinnik, Vassili Smyslov, Mikhail Tal, Tigran Petrosian, Boris Spasski, Viktor Korchnoi, Anatoli Karpov and Gari Kasparov are extraordinary and very famous chess players, all of them from Russia."

Etymology

From Japanese ガリ.

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