单词 | tapioca |
释义 | tapiocan. a. A starch used for food, the prepared flour of the roots of the cassava n. plant. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > flour > [noun] > flour from non-cereals flour1660 tapioca1707 cassava1750 wood-meal1758 pea-flour1766 gram flour1820 nardoo1861 banana flour1890 soya1897 chickpea flour1913 garri1926 soy1945 bean-flour- the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > puddings > [noun] > sago or tapioca sago-pudding1743 sago1769 sago milk1827 tapioca1837 semolina pudding1904 snake eyes1918 frogspawn1949 1612 J. Smith Map of Virginia 13 The chiefe roote they haue for foode is called Tockawhoughe... Raw it is no better then poison, and being roasted except it be tender..it will prickle and torment the throat extreamly. 1648 G. Marggraf Historiae Rerum Naturalium Brasiliae 67 Fecula albissima, quam indigenæ vocant Tipioja, Tipiaca & Tipiabica.] 1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. 131 The juice evaporated over the fire gives the Tipioca meal. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Tipioca, a name given..to a sort of cream or flower made from the yucca or manihot-root..after expressing the juice. 1792 Encycl. Brit. IX. 79/2 Starch, which the Brasilians export in little lumps under the name of tapioca. 1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs ii. 213 Tapioca is the farina, obtained by subsidence in a very fine state, after washing the pulp of the root of the Cassava, which grows in South America. 1837 W. Tayler Diary 14 May in J. Burnett Useful Toil (1974) ii. 181 They had two soles fried with saws..a tabiaca pudding, cheese and butter. 1859 D. Bunce Trav. with Dr. Leichhardt 107 Christmas day..tapioca pudding, each man having as much as he could eat. 1869 R. F. Burton Explor. Highlands Brazil II. 39 The sediment of the juice that comes from the mass is called tipioca (our tapioca) and the liquor is thrown away. 1891 R. Kipling Life's Handicap vii. 169 Smoked tapioca pudding. b. In generalized application. ΚΠ 1856 Farmer's Mag. Nov. 409 Properly granulated and dried, potato meal forms an excellent tapioca. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1707 |
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