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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

Any of a group of polysaccharides of the general formula (C6-H10-O5)n, composed of a long-chain polymer of glucose in the form of amylose and amylopectin. It is the chief storage form of energy reserve (carbohydrates) in plants.

Starch; in U.S. cornstarch obtained from seed of Zea mays; in Br. this or starch from wheat, Triticum sativum, or rice, Oryza sativa; a white powder used as a dusting powder or as an excipient.

[Latin] Vegetable starch; (C6H10O5)

It is insoluble in cold water and alcohol, but forms with boiling water a strong, semi-transparent jelly. It is demulcent, and is used as an emollient glyster, and as the vehicle for opium, when given per anum. Starch is met with abundantly in all the cereal grains^ in the stalks of many of the palms, in some lichens, and in many tuberous roots, particularly in the bulbs of the orchis.

[Latin] Starch.

L. for starch.

In chemistry, the soluble starch (granulose) which forms the inner portion of the starch granules.