tapioca

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /tæpiˈoʊkə/

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tapioca (countable and uncountable, plural tapiocas)

1. A starchy food made from the cassava plant, used in puddings.
   • 2009, Edna Staebler, Food That Really Schmecks, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, →ISBN, page 286:

     Fish eyes and glue we used to call the half-cooked, large-grained, starchy tapioca without flavour that we were served every week in our residence at university. How I longed for the creamy pudding Mother used to make.

2. The cassava plant, Manihot esculenta, from which tapioca is derived; manioc.
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 270:

     When the entire coast-line becomes a sea of waving palms, with Chinese and Malay villages fringing the shores, which are at present mere barren wastes of mangroves, with plantations of pepper, of gambier, and of tapioca and rice, the Northern Territory, backed up by the unswerving energy of the Australian squatter, miner, and planter, will present a spectacle almost unknown in the scheme of British colonization.

• tapioca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• IPA^(key): /ta.pjɔ.ka/

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tapioca m (plural tapiocas)

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• “tapioca”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

tapioca f (plural tapioche)

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• apatico, atopica, capotai, copiata, opacati, opacità

From Old Tupi tapi'oka.

tapioca f (plural tapiocas)

1. Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) (starchy food made from cassava)

tapioca f (plural tapiocas)

1. tapioca

• “tapioca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014