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Powdery Starch

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noun

• powdery starch from certain sago palms; used in Asia as a food thickener and textile stiffener

37%6 A white, powdery substance used for stiffening fabric
noun

• 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

• a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering

verb

• stiffen with starch

37%8 Produces a white, powdery starch
noun

• cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca

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