starch

IPA: stˈɑrtʃ

(uncountable) A widely diffused vegetable substance, found especially in seeds, bulbs and tubers, as extracted (e.g. from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) in the form of 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.
(nutrition, countable) Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.
(uncountable) A stiff, formal manner; formality.
(uncountable) Fortitude.
(countable) Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener.

Examples of "starch" in Sentences

Arrowroot, or arrowroot starch, is a powdery product made from the arrowroot plant, a starchy tropical root.
You can also get them with potatoes, but I tend to not add those since starch within starch is just a bit much.
The degree to which our starch is awash is exhibited in the behaviour of so many of our captives, but especially in these two.
The word starch dates from the 15th century, and comes from a German root that means “to stiffen, to make rigid,” which is also what starch does to convert bread dough into bread.
The other was 'a certain kind of liquid matter, which they call starch, wherein the devil hath willed them to wash and dye their ruffs well; and this starch they make of divers colours and hues -- white, red, blue, purple, and the like, which, being dry, will then stand stiff and inflexible about their necks. '