| 单词 | starch |
| 释义 | starch n. & v. --n 1. an odourless tasteless polysaccharide occurring widely in plants and obtained chiefly from cereals and potatoes, forming an important constitutent of the human diet. 2. a preparation of this for stiffening fabric before ironing. 3. stiffness of manner; formality. --vtr. stiffen (clothing) with starch. Phrases and idioms starch-reduced (esp. of food) containing less than the normal proportion of starch. Derivatives starcher n. Etymology: earlier as verb: ME sterche f. OE stercan (unrecorded) stiffen f. Gmc: cf. STARK |
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