Crossword-Solution: AIPI 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Sweet cassava (_Janiphi_ (or _Jatropha_,) _Loeflingii_, Kunth; _Manihot Aipi_, of Pohl).--This species has a spindle-shaped root brown externally, about six or seven ounces or more in weight, which contains amylaceous matter, without any bitterness, and is used as food, after being rasped and washed, so as to cleanse it from the fibrous matter, in the same manner as arrowroot is prepared.

The name “bitter cassava” is commonly given to it in the West Indies, to distinguish it from another species of the same genus, _Manihot aipi_ (Pohl), which, from having no poisonous properties, is named the “sweet cassava.” The roots of both species yield the starch, but those of the poisonous plant are the richer.