0 small, hard pieces of the dried and crushed root of the cassava plant, usually cooked with milk and sugar to make a sweet food -- （食用）木薯淀粉
tapioca pudding 木薯布丁
There are alternatives to rice—sago, tapioca and farina.
Travancore feeds itself on an inadequate diet of tapioca, from the calorie point of view.
That is what we mean by "mainly"—not "mainly" in the sense of two-thirds rice and one-third tapioca or something like that.
It appears in this list here after sago and tapioca, and before marmalade.
On the last—and first—occasion, oatmeal was sandwiched between sago, tapioca and marmalade.
Whether rice pudding, tapioca, ground rice or sago, it is always there—not very exciting, not very often chosen, but always there.
When you do extract it, in that particular kind of cassava we get the material which we all know as tapioca.
Then there are sago, tapioca, sago flour, and bananas which are enormously important.
