- amylum
- nouna 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• Syn: ↑starch• Hypernyms: ↑polysaccharide, ↑polyose• Hyponyms:↑arum, ↑cassava, ↑cassava starch, ↑manioc, ↑manioca, ↑arrowroot, ↑cornstarch, ↑cornflour, ↑sago, ↑amyloid, ↑Otaheite arrowroot, ↑Otaheite arrowroot starch
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\\ˈamələm\ noun (-s): starch* * *
/am"euh leuhm/, n.starch (def. 1).[1550-60; < L < Gk ámylon starch. See AMYLO-]* * *
amylum /amˈi-ləm/ (chem)nounStarchORIGIN: Gr amylon the finest flour, starch; literally, unmilled, from a- (privative), and mylē a mill• • •amylāˈceous adjectiveamˈyloid adjective nounIn any of several pathological conditions, an intercellular deposit of starch-like material in the tissuesamyloidˈal adjectiveamyloidōˈsis nounThe condition of the body in which amyloid is deposited in the tissuesamylopecˈtin nounThe major component of starch (about 80 per cent), consisting of branched polysaccharide chainsamylopˈsin nounAn enzyme in pancreatic juice that converts starch into sugaramˈylose nounThe minor component of starch (about 20 per cent), consisting of long unbranched polysaccharide chains
Useful english dictionary. 2012.