Usually means: Carbohydrate polymer, energy storage molecule.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. starch: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. starch: Merriam-Webster
  3. starch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. starch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. starch: Collins English Dictionary
  6. starch: Vocabulary.com
  7. Starch, starch: Wordnik
  8. starch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Starch: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. starch: Wiktionary
  11. starch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. starch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. starch: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. starch: Dictionary.com
  15. starch (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. starch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Starch (game), Starch (video game), Starch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Starch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. starch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. starch: Rhymezone
  21. starch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. starch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. Starch: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  24. Starch: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. starch: FreeDictionary.org
  26. starch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  27. starch: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Broadcast Media Terms (No longer online)
  3. starch: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Starch (food), starch: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. starch: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Diabetes Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. starch: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  7. Starch (food), starch: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. starch: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)
  2. starch: Natural History Terms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. starch, starch: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. starch: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Paper Making (No longer online)
  4. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See starched as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (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.
noun:  (nutrition, countable) Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.
noun:  (uncountable) A stiff, formal manner; formality.
noun:  (uncountable) Fortitude.
noun:  (countable) Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener.
verb:  To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.
adjective:  Stiff; precise; rigid.

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