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starch

Length / number of characters: 6
Number of words: 1

  • a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice
  • Stiff
  • a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering
  • stiffen with 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
  • Fig.: A stiff, formal manner
  • To stiffen with starch
  • Residential area (city, town, village) in Belarus in Homyel'skaya Voblasts'

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