Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling starch.

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  • adjective resembling starch

Etymologies

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starch +‎ -like

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Examples

  • • It can be stored in limited amounts for later use as a starchlike material called glycogen.

    THE NEW ATKINS FOR A NEW YOU Dr. Eric C. Westman 2010

  • He was humming a tune, passing a clean cotton rag back and forth across the dried wax on the finish, pausing to blow a bug off the starched top so he would not have to smack it and stain the immaculate starchlike whiteness of the canvas.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • He was humming a tune, passing a clean cotton rag back and forth across the dried wax on the finish, pausing to blow a bug off the starched top so he would not have to smack it and stain the immaculate starchlike whiteness of the canvas.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • He was humming a tune, passing a clean cotton rag back and forth across the dried wax on the finish, pausing to blow a bug off the starched top so he would not have to smack it and stain the immaculate starchlike whiteness of the canvas.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • He was humming a tune, passing a clean cotton rag back and forth across the dried wax on the finish, pausing to blow a bug off the starched top so he would not have to smack it and stain the immaculate starchlike whiteness of the canvas.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • • It can be stored in limited amounts for later use as a starchlike material called glycogen.

    THE NEW ATKINS FOR A NEW YOU Dr. Eric C. Westman 2010

  • The liver cells (the peculiar forms of which had been described by Purkinje, Henle, and Dutrochet about 1838) have the power to convert certain of the substances that come to them into a starchlike compound called glycogen, and to store this substance away till it is needed by the organism.

    A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences 1904

  • Since then, it has been frequently reported in Asia, though rarely, if ever, in the U.S. The rash is thought to be a toxic reaction to a starchlike component of the shiitake mushroom.

    NYT > Home Page M.D. By LISA SANDERS 2011

  • Yuan Yao, an assistant professor of food science, has successfully modified the phytoglycogen nanoparticle, a starchlike substance that makes up nearly 30 percent of the dry mass of some sweet corn.

    Health News from Medical News Today 2009

  • Yuan Yao, an assistant professor of food science, has successfully modified the phytoglycogen nanoparticle, a starchlike substance that makes up nearly 30 percent of the dry mass of some sweet corn.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

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