🔤 Starch ✨
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URDU
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ENGLISH
📚noun
starch
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PRONUNCIATION
Standard: stɑːtʃ
Phonetic: stɑːtʃ
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DEFINITION
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.
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SYNONYMS
amylum
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