FECULA
\fˈɛkjʊlə], \fˈɛkjʊlə], \f_ˈɛ_k_j_ʊ_l_ə]\
Definitions of FECULA
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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Any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture, washing with water, and subsidence.
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The green matter of plants; chlorophyll.
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The nutritious part of wheat; starch or farina; - called also amylaceous fecula.
By Oddity Software
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Any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture, washing with water, and subsidence.
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The green matter of plants; chlorophyll.
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The nutritious part of wheat; starch or farina; - called also amylaceous fecula.
By Noah Webster.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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An immediate principle of vegetables, composed of hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon. It exists in several plants, and has different names, according to that which furnishes it. (F.) Fecule, Amydole. When extracted from wheat or barley, it is called starch, Amylum. When from Cycas circinalis, Sago; -from Orchis morio, Salep. We say, also, Fecula of the Potato, Bryony, Arum, Manioc, &c.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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