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# tapioca

«tapioca» in Mova's school dictionary: **a starch made from the root of the cassava plant; it…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (tapioca; uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Tapioca is a starch made from the root of the cassava plant; it comes as flour, flakes or small white balls (pearls). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tapioca/#m1)

2) Tapioca (pudding) is a sweet milky pudding made with tapioca pearls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tapioca/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Food and science: cassava grows in hot countries in South America, Africa and Asia; tapioca pearls swell and go see-through when cooked. Bubble tea uses big chewy tapioca pearls. In old UK school dinners, tapioca pudding was famous (some children called it «frogspawn»). Tapioca flour is gluten-free.

### examples

- Grandma made tapioca pudding with milk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tapioca/#x1)
- Bubble tea has tapioca pearls at the bottom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tapioca/#x2)
- Tapioca comes from the cassava root. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tapioca/#x3)
- Some children used to call tapioca «frogspawn». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tapioca/#x4)
- The tapioca balls turned clear as they cooked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tapioca/#x5)
- Tapioca flour is used in gluten-free bread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tapioca/#x6)

### note

Uncountable. Said «tap-ee-OH-kuh». Raw cassava root is poisonous unless prepared properly, but tapioca from shops is safe.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tapioca» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tapioca/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.