English Dictionary

tapioca

IPA（発音記号）

/tæpiˈoʊkə/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

A starchy food made from the cassava plant, used in puddings. / The cassava plant, Manihot esculenta, from which tapioca is derived; manioc.

日本語の意味

キャッサバ植物から作られるでんぷん質の食品。プリンなどに使われる。 / タピオカの原料となるキャッサバ（マニオック）という植物。

She stirred tapioca into the pudding to make it thick and slightly chewy.

彼女はプリンにタピオカを混ぜて、濃厚で少しもちもちした食感にした。

意味（1）

A starchy food made from the cassava plant, used in puddings.

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.

意味（2）

The cassava plant, Manihot esculenta, from which tapioca is derived; manioc.

When the entire coast-line becomes a sea of waving palms, with Chinese and Malay villages fringing the shores, which are at present mere barren wastes of mangroves, with plantations of pepper, of gambier, and of tapioca and rice, the Northern Territory, backed up by the unswerving energy of the Australian squatter, miner, and planter, will present a spectacle almost unknown in the scheme of British colonization.

tapiocas （ plural ）