tapioca
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tapioca
- /tæpiˈoʊkə/ US
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Portuguese tapioca, from Old Tupi tapi'oka.
noun tapiocas
- A starchy food made from the cassava plant, used in puddings. 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.
- The cassava plant, Manihot esculenta, from which tapioca is derived; manioc. 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 Aust
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Talk about this word "tapioca." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/tapioca. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. tapioca. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/tapioca "tapioca." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/tapioca.Cite this
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title = {tapioca},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tapioca},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
