starches

Meaning of starches

noun
  1. A widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted (as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) as a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.
  2. (nutrition) Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.
  3. A stiff, formal manner; formality.
  4. Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener
verb
  1. To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.
    She starched her blouses.

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Hyphenation of starches

starches

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
  • starches is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Anagrams of starches

chessart

Words that rhyme with starches

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