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Another word for starch

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Noun

  1. A quality of active mental and physical forcefulness

    Idioms:
    See also:

    tired

    action

Verb

  1. To make stiff or stiffer

    See also:

    flexible

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Another word for starch

Noun

  1. A laundering agent

  2. A complex carbohydrate

    See also:

    sugar

    carbohydrate

  3. A stiff bearing

  4. Vigor

    See also:

    vigor

Verb
  1. See also:

    thicken

    stiffen

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Sentence Examples

  • Maltose, malt-sugar, maltobiose, C12H22011, is formed, together with dextrine, by the action of malt diastase on starch, and as an intermediate product in the decomposition of starch by sulphuric acid, and of glycogen by ferments.

  • In Europe, potato starch is generally employed; in America, corn starch.

  • Embedded in the protoplasm are a number of starch grains.

  • Starch grains are sometimes present.

  • The formation of starch may take place in.

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