"tapioca" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /tæpiˈoʊkə/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-tapioca.wav Forms: tapiocas [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese tapioca, from Old Tupi tapi'oka. Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|pt|tapioca}} Borrowed from Portuguese tapioca, {{der|en|tpw|tapi'oka}} Old Tupi tapi'oka Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} tapioca (countable and uncountable, plural tapiocas)
  1. A starchy food made from the cassava plant, used in puddings. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Foods
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  2. The cassava plant, Manihot esculenta, from which tapioca is derived; manioc. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Foods Categories (lifeform): Spurges
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: pearl tapioca, tapioca fish, tapioca pearl, tapioca pudding, tapioca starch Translations (starchy food from cassava): տապիոկա (tapioka) (Armenian), тапіёка (tapijóka) [feminine] (Belarusian), ট্যাপিওকা (ṭêpiōka) (Bengali), သာဂူ (sagu) (Burmese), mundok (Central Dusun), 樹薯 /树薯 (chhiū-chî, chhiū-chû) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 木薯 (mùshǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), mundok (Coastal Kadazan), tapioka [feminine] (Czech), tapioko (Esperanto), tapioka (Finnish), tapioca [masculine] (French), Tapioka [feminine] (German), ταπιόκα (tapióka) [feminine] (Greek), साबूदाना (sābūdānā) [masculine] (Hindi), tápióka (Hungarian), tapioka (Indonesian), kanji (Indonesian), tapioca (Interlingua), taipióca [feminine] (Irish), tapioca [feminine] (Italian), タピオカ (tapioka) (Japanese), ubi kayu (Malay), kaspe (Malay), singkong (Malay), sampa (Malay), ubi sampa (Malay), ubi jenderal (Malay), ubi perancis (Malay), tapjoka [feminine] (Maltese), tapioka (Maori), साबुदाणा (sābudāṇā) [masculine] (Marathi), tapioca [feminine] (Portuguese), tapiocă [feminine] (Romanian), тапио́ка (tapióka) [feminine] (Russian), tapioca (Spanish), sampeu (Sundanese), singkong (Sundanese), tapioka [common-gender] (Swedish), tapyoka (Tagalog), ஆளுவல்லி (āḷuvalli) (Tamil), కర్రపెండలం (karrapeṇḍalaṁ) (Telugu), tapyoka (Turkish), тапіо́ка (tapióka) [feminine] (Ukrainian), bột báng (Vietnamese)
Disambiguation of 'starchy food from cassava': 52 48

Inflected forms

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      "word": "tápióka"
    },
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      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "tapioka"
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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    },
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      "_dis1": "52 48",
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      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "タピオカ"
    },
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      "_dis1": "52 48",
      "code": "ms",
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      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "ubi kayu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 48",
      "code": "ms",
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      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "kaspe"
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      "_dis1": "52 48",
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      "_dis1": "52 48",
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      "_dis1": "52 48",
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      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "ubi perancis"
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      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "tapjoka"
    },
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      "_dis1": "52 48",
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "tapioka"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 48",
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "sābudāṇā",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "साबुदाणा"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 48",
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tapioca"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 48",
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tapiocă"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 48",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tapióka",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "тапио́ка"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 48",
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      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "tapioca"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 48",
      "code": "su",
      "lang": "Sundanese",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "sampeu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 48",
      "code": "su",
      "lang": "Sundanese",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "singkong"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 48",
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      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "tapioka"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 48",
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "tapyoka"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 48",
      "code": "ta",
      "lang": "Tamil",
      "roman": "āḷuvalli",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "ஆளுவல்லி"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 48",
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "karrapeṇḍalaṁ",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "కర్రపెండలం"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 48",
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "tapyoka"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 48",
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "tapióka",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "тапіо́ка"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 48",
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "bột báng"
    }
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}
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    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Greek translations",
    "Terms with Hindi translations",
    "Terms with Hokkien translations",
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    "Terms with Interlingua translations",
    "Terms with Irish translations",
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    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Malay translations",
    "Terms with Maltese translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Maori translations",
    "Terms with Marathi translations",
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    "Terms with Romanian translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Sundanese translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
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      "word": "pearl tapioca"
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          "ref": "2009, Edna Staebler, Food That Really Schmecks, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, →ISBN, page 286:",
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          "ref": "2021 April 16, Kellen Browning, “Another Unlikely Pandemic Shortage: Boba Tea”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:",
          "text": "It happened when beverage aficionados learned that tapioca, the starch used to make the sweet, round, chewy black bubbles — or pearls — that are the featured topping in the popular boba tea drink, was in short supply.",
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      "roman": "tapioka",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "տապիոկա"
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      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
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      "roman": "ṭêpiōka",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "ট্যাপিওকা"
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      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "sagu",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "သာဂူ"
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      "lang": "Central Dusun",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "mundok"
    },
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      "code": "nan-hbl",
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      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "mùshǔ",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
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      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
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      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "tapioko"
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "tapioka"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tapioca"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Tapioka"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "tapióka",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ταπιόκα"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "sābūdānā",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "साबूदाना"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "tápióka"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "tapioka"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "kanji"
    },
    {
      "code": "ia",
      "lang": "Interlingua",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "tapioca"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "taipióca"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tapioca"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "tapioka",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "タピオカ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "ubi kayu"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "kaspe"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "singkong"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "sampa"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "ubi sampa"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "ubi jenderal"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "ubi perancis"
    },
    {
      "code": "mt",
      "lang": "Maltese",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tapjoka"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "tapioka"
    },
    {
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "sābudāṇā",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "साबुदाणा"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tapioca"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tapiocă"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tapióka",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "тапио́ка"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "tapioca"
    },
    {
      "code": "su",
      "lang": "Sundanese",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "sampeu"
    },
    {
      "code": "su",
      "lang": "Sundanese",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "singkong"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "tapioka"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "tapyoka"
    },
    {
      "code": "ta",
      "lang": "Tamil",
      "roman": "āḷuvalli",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "ஆளுவல்லி"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "karrapeṇḍalaṁ",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "కర్రపెండలం"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "tapyoka"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "tapióka",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "тапіо́ка"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "starchy food from cassava",
      "word": "bột báng"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tapioca"
}

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