tapioca
18
5.9
- noun
- /ˌtæpiˈoʊkə/
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tapioca
- When dessert was served, the bowls of tapioca had somehow become larger.
- tapioca pudding
- tapioca starch
- tapioca pearls
I've got rice flour, tapioca flour, and salt.
- I've got rice flour, tapioca flour, and salt.
- Chicken, Chicken bone broth, tapioca starch, egg whites, natural flavor.
- Other ways they'll add fake fibers like chicory root fiber or tapioca starch fiber.
- So tapioca flour is another big one that they'll add in.
- I've now learned so boba, tapioca pearls, bubbles pop in your mouth.
- They're spaghetti noodles in particular are a OK, it's chickpeas, tapioca and xanthan gum.
Examples
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I love tapioca.
Fiction book (2002) -
We made tapioca!
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Can I have your tapioca?
Fiction book (2002) -
Nobody wants to eat any burnt tapioca.
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'Course, we have tapioca pudding for dessert.
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Well some people don't like tapioca pudding.
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When I serve dessert, it's either homemade pudding (I like tapioca) or root beer floats.
Blog text (12) -
Just for fun, she poured the tapioca balls into her Assam iced tea and drank it.
Blog text (18) -
Other ways they'll add fake fibers like chicory root fiber or tapioca starch fiber.
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For dessert, we enjoyed a creamy tapioca pudding topped with fresh fruits.
Synonyms
A fine white powder from the cassava root that people use in cooking
Compounds
2
2.7
A sweet creamy dessert with small soft balls of tapioca cooked in milk and sugar
How Starchy
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word tapioca comes from a Tupi word in Brazil and reached English through Portuguese. It originally named the white 'starch' taken from the cassava root, so tapioca still means the white grains or starch used to thicken puddings and make bubble tea pearls.