tapioca

A starch made from cassava roots, usually processed as beads or flakes and used for puddings and as a thickening agent in cooking.

A dish, especially a pudding, made from this starch.

A farinaceous substance prepared from cassava by drying it while moist upon hot plates.

A coarsely granular substance obtained by heating, and thus partly changing, the moistened starch obtained from the roots of the cassava. It is much used in puddings and as a thickening for soups. See cassava.

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

granular preparation of cassava starch used to thicken especially puddings