starch -
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
arrowroot white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch
cornflour,
cornstarch starch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener
sago powdery starch from certain sago palms; used in Asia as a food thickener and textile stiffener
amyloid (pathology) a waxy translucent complex protein resembling starch that results from degeneration of tissue
starch -
a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering
Verb
starch -
stiffen with starch; "starch clothes"
stiffen make stiff or stiffer; "Stiffen the cream by adding gelatine"
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Wiktionary
Substantiv
starch -
A widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc. as a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.
Starch or amylum is a carbohydrate consisting of a large number of glucose units joined together by glycosidic bonds. This polysaccharide is produced by all green plants as an energy store. It is the most important carbohydrate in the human diet and is contained in such staple foods as potatoes, wheat, maize (corn), rice, and cassava.
OmegaWiki Dictionary
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starch A polysaccharide which is a combination of many monosaccharide molecules, made during photosynthesis and stored as starch grains in many plants.
starch To treat with laundry starch in order to stiffen.
