| carioca | (noun) a lively ballroom dance that resembles the samba | - |
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| (noun) music composed for dancing the carioca | - |
| coca | (noun) dried leaves of the coca plant (and related plants that also contain cocaine); chewed by Andean people for their stimulating effect | - |
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| (noun) a South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes; a source of cocaine | Synonyms: coca plant, Erythroxylon coca |
| mandioca | (noun) cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca | Synonyms: bitter cassava, gari, mandioc, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima, manioc, tapioca plant |
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| manioca | (noun) a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics | Synonyms: cassava, cassava starch, manioc |
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| oca | (noun) South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers | Synonyms: oka, Oxalis crenata, Oxalis tuberosa |
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| tapioca | (noun) granular preparation of cassava starch used to thicken especially puddings | - |
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