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Dessert Calvin doesn't like in "Calvin and Hobbes"
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tapioca
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Word definitions for tapioca in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, tipiaca , from Portuguese or Spanish tapioca , from Tupi (Brazil) tipioca "juice of a pressed cassava," from tipi "residue, dregs" + og , ok "to squeeze out" (from roots of the cassava plant).
Usage examples of tapioca.
Pepper and some other spices flourish, and the soil with but a little cultivation produces rice wet and dry, tapioca, gambier, sugar-cane, coffee, yams, sweet potatoes, cocoa, sago, cotton, tea, cinchona, india rubber, and indigo.
They are chiefly sugar, pepper, tin, nutmegs, mace, sago, tapioca, rice, buffalo hides and horns, rattans, gutta, india rubber, gambier, gums, coffee, dye-stuffs, and tobacco, but the island itself, though its soil looks rich from its redness, only produces pepper and gambier.
The influence of Holland has altogether vanished, as is fitting, for she cared only for nutmegs, sago, tapioca, tin and pepper.
Now, in this country, barren of all cultivation, they could not depend upon the tapioca, the sorgho, the maize, and the fruits, which formed the vegetable food of the native tribes.
Rice 1 40 Cacao 3 20 Coffee 3 50 Farina 75 Tapioca 3 00 Pure rubber 11 50 Plassaba cord 6 50 Tobacco 1 50 Sarsparilla 11 50 The Brazilian arroba is seven pounds heavier than the Spanish.
Whitman had been a twenty-five-year-old student of architectural engineering at the University of Texas when he'd gone tapioca pudding.
The true starch of the Mandioca is known to commerce as Brazilian arrowroot, and this, after heating on hot plates and stirring with an iron rod, becomes tapioca.
Some weak tea and them plain digestive biscuits, it's all I can take, with a bit of banana and tapioca, which they get from a nearby village.
Brazilian Arrowroot, or Tapioca Meal, is obtained from Manihot utilissima (bitter) and M.
But, as it turns out, you can't stick tapioca pudding into anything.
Qwilleran, who had never encountered a plate of macaroni and cheese he didn't like, ordered the special with sanguine expectation but found the pasta cooked to the consistency of tapioca pudding.
Connie, covered with running sores, stumbled to Danny and hugged him, though he had turned to tapioca pudding and was melting.
Trolls conferenced in the darkest corners, elves engaged in slavish banter, and something like a squashed sphinx limped slowly past on all four legs, complaining mightily to an attentive retinue of sylphs whose sleek flesh jiggled like tapioca pudding.
We're stuck through the ages, with the bonds cemented by sticky rice and tapioca pudding.
Dessert was tapioca pudding, but it was well flavored and served with little cookies that tasted of anise.