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pearl tapioca

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tap⋅i⋅o⋅ca

[tap-ee-oh-kuh]
–noun
a food substance prepared from cassava in granular, flake, pellet (pearl tapioca), or flour form, used in puddings, as a thickener, etc.

Origin:
1605–15; < Pg < Tupi tipioca lit., juice (of cassava) squeezed out, i.e., pulp after squeezing
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tapioca 
1648, from Port. or Sp. tapioca, from Tupi (Brazil) tipioca, from tipi "residue, dregs" + og, ok "to squeeze out" (from roots of the cassava plant).
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