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STARCH

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Dictionary entry overview: What does starch mean?

• STARCH (noun)
The noun STARCH has 1 sense:

1. 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

Familiarity information: STARCH used as a noun is very rare.

• STARCH (verb)
The verb STARCH has 1 sense:

1. stiffen with starch

Familiarity information: STARCH used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• STARCH (noun)

Sense 1

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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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

amylum; starch

Hypernyms ("starch" is a kind of...):

polyose; polysaccharide (any of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide molecules)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "starch"):

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; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics)

arrowroot (a nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant)

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 (a non-nitrogenous food substance consisting chiefly of starch; any substance resembling starch)

Otaheite arrowroot; Otaheite arrowroot starch (a starch obtained from the root of the pia)

• STARCH (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Stiffen with starch

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

starch clothes

Hypernyms (to "starch" is one way to...):

stiffen (make stiff or stiffer)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

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