Thesaurus: starch

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1. a. Stiff; precise; rigid.
2. 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.
3. n. Fig.: A stiff, formal manner; formality.
4. v. t. To stiffen with starch.
5. n. 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
6. n. a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering
7. v. stiffen with starch
8. v:27/n:73 n. 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 n. a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering v. stiffen with starch