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nouna 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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nouna commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in launderingtype of:
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"starch clothes"verbstiffen with starchtype of:
Definition that contains starch
- plantain starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics
- cornstarch starch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener
- arum starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root
- cornflour starch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener