English > starch: 3 senses > noun 1, substance| Meaning | A complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles. |
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| Synonym | amylum |
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| Narrower | Otaheite arrowroot, Otaheite arrowroot starch | A starch obtained from the root of the pia |
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| amyloid | A non-nitrogenous food substance consisting chiefly of starch |
| arrowroot | A nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot / arrowroot plant |
| arum | starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root |
| cassava, cassava starch, manioc, manioca | A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant |
| cornstarch, cornflour | starch prepared from the grains of corn |
| sago | powdery starch from certain sago palms |
| Broader | polysaccharide, polyose | Any of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide molecules |
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| Spanish | almidón, amilo, amylum, fécula |
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| Catalan | amylum, fècula, midó |
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| Adjectives | starchy | consisting of or containing starch |
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| Verbs | starch | stiffen with starch |
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