Definitions
granular preparation of cassava starch used to thicken especially puddings
Word origin
Borrowed from Portuguese tapioca, from Old Tupi tapi'oka.
Used in a sentence
“Fish eyes and glue we used to call the half-cooked, large-grained, starchy tapioca without flavour that we were served every week in our residence at university. How I longed for the creamy pudding Mother used to make.”
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Pudding pearls”7 letters
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