TAPIOCA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tapioca mean? 

• TAPIOCA (noun)
  The noun TAPIOCA has 1 sense:

1. granular preparation of cassava starch used to thicken especially puddings

  Familiarity information: TAPIOCA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAPIOCA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Granular preparation of cassava starch used to thicken especially puddings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("tapioca" is a kind of...):

food product; foodstuff (a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food)

Meronyms (substance of "tapioca"):

cassava; cassava starch; manioc; manioca (a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics)

Holonyms ("tapioca" is a substance of...):

cassava; manioc (cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca)