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AMYLUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
amylum; starch
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("amylum" is a kind of...):
polyose; polysaccharide (any of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide molecules)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "amylum"):
arum (starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root)
cassava; cassava starch; manioc; manioca (a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics)
arrowroot (a nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant)
cornflour; cornstarch (starch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener)
sago (powdery starch from certain sago palms; used in Asia as a food thickener and textile stiffener)
amyloid (a non-nitrogenous food substance consisting chiefly of starch; any substance resembling starch)
Otaheite arrowroot; Otaheite arrowroot starch (a starch obtained from the root of the pia)
