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Definition of starch
Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of starch is as below...
Starch
(n.) 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..
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Osmund
::
Osmund
(n.) A fern of the genus
Osmunda,
or
flowering
fern. The most
remarkable
species
is the
osmund
royal,
or royal fern
(Osmunda
regalis),
which grows in wet or boggy
places,
and has large
bipinnate
fronds,
often with a
panicle
of
capsules
at the top. The
rootstock
contains
much
starch,
and has been used in
stiffening
linen..
Diastatic
::
Diastatic
(a.)
Relating
to
diastase;
having
the
properties
of
diastase;
effecting
the
conversion
of
starch
into
sugar.
Amelcorn
::
Amelcorn
(n.) A
variety
of wheat from which
starch
is
produced;
--
called
also
French
rice.
Starch
::
Starch
(n.) 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..
Starchy
::
Starchwort
(n.) The
cuckoopint,
the
tubers
of which yield a fine
quality
of
starch..
Maranta
::
Maranta
(n.) A genus of
endogenous
plants
found in
tropical
America,
and some
species
also in
India.
They have
tuberous
roots
containing
a large
amount
of
starch,
and from one
species
(Maranta
arundinacea)
arrowroot
is
obtained.
Many kinds are
cultivated
for
ornament..
Amylose
::
Amylose
(n.) One of the
starch
group
(C6H10O5)n
of the
carbohydrates;
as,
starch,
arabin,
dextrin,
cellulose,
etc..
Maltose
::
Maltose
(n.) A
crystalline
sugar
formed
from
starch
by the
action
of
distance
of malt, and the
amylolytic
ferment
of
saliva
and
pancreatic
juice.
It
resembles
dextrose,
but
rotates
the plane of
polarized
light
further
to the right and
possesses
a lower
cupric
oxide
reducing
power..
Dahlin
::
Dahlin
(n.) A
variety
of
starch
extracted
from the
dahlia;
--
called
also
inulin.
See
Inulin.
Amylolytic
::
Amylolytic
(a.)
Effecting
the
conversion
of
starch
into
soluble
dextrin
and
sugar;
as, an
amylolytic
ferment..
Cornstarch
::
Cornstarch
(n.)
Starch
made from
Indian
corn, esp. a fine white flour used for
puddings,
etc..
Sowens
::
Sowens
(n. pl.) A
nutritious
article
of food, much used in
Scotland,
made from the husk of the oat by a
process
not
unlike
that by which
common
starch
is made; --
called
flummery
in
England..
Starchness
::
Starchly
(adv.)
In a
starched
or
starch
manner.
Star-chamber
::
Starch
(v. t.) To
stiffen
with
starch.
Unstarch
::
Unstarch
(v. t.) To free from
starch;
to make limp or
pliable.
Amyloid
::
Amyloid
(n.) A
non-nitrogenous
starchy
food; a
starchlike
substance.
Granulose
::
Granulose
(n.) The main
constituent
of the
starch
grain or
granule,
in
distinction
from the
framework
of
cellulose.
Unlike
cellulose,
it is
colored
blue by
iodine,
and is
converted
into
dextrin
and sugar by
boiling
acids and
amylolytic
ferments..
Tous-les-mois
::
Tous-les-mois
(n.) A kind of
starch
with very
large,
oval,
flattened
grains,
often sold as
arrowroot,
and
extensively
used for
adulterating
cocoa.
It is made from the
rootstocks
of a
species
of
Canna,
probably
C.
edulis,
the
tubers
of which are
edible
every month in the
year..
Starcher
::
Starchedness
(n.) The
quality
or state of being
starched;
stiffness
in
manners;
formality.
Starchwort
::
Starchness
(n.) Of or
pertaining
to
starched
or
starch;
stiffness
of
manner;
preciseness.
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