amylum
English Thesaurus
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 (noun.substance)
| hypernym | : | polyose, polysaccharide, |
| definition | : | any of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide molecules (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | arum, |
| definition | : | starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | cassava, cassava starch, manioc, manioca, |
| definition | : | a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | arrowroot, |
| definition | : | a nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | cornflour, cornstarch, |
| definition | : | starch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | sago, |
| definition | : | powdery starch from certain sago palms; used in Asia as a food thickener and textile stiffener (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | amyloid, |
| definition | : | a non-nitrogenous food substance consisting chiefly of starch; any substance resembling starch (noun.substance) |
| derivation | : | starch, |
| definition | : | stiffen with starch (verb.change) |
| derivation | : | starchy, |
| definition | : | consisting of or containing starch (adj.all) |
| derivation | : | starch, |
| definition | : | stiffen with starch (verb.change) |
| derivation | : | starchy, |
| definition | : | consisting of or containing starch (adj.all) |
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