tapioca
pronunciation
How to pronounce tapioca in British English:
UK [ˌtæpiˈəʊkə]
How to pronounce tapioca in American English:
US [ˌtæpiˈoʊkə]
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- Noun:
- granular preparation of cassava starch used to thicken especially puddings
Word Origin
- tapioca (n.)
- 1640s, tipiaca, from Portuguese or Spanish tapioca, from Tupi (Brazil) tipioca "juice of a pressed cassava," from tipi "residue, dregs" + og, ok "to squeeze out" (from roots of the cassava plant).
Example
- 1. Tapioca malt dextrin , a food starch used to create powders out of fatty substances such as nut butters and bacon fat
- 2. Products : organic tapioca starch , organic cane sugar , organic tapioca .
- 3. Sometimes I feel like I 'm walking through a pool of tapioca pudding , just trudging along day by day .
- 4. Commercial starch is made mainly from corn , though wheat , tapioca , rice , and potato starch are also used .
- 5. " The glucose chains are unbranched in amylose and branched in amylopectin , which occur mixed in starches . Starch consumed by animals is broken down into glucose by enzymes during digestion . Commercial starch is made mainly from corn , though wheat , tapioca , rice , and potato starch are also used . "