animal starch

noun

, Biochemistry.

1. glycogen.

animal starch

noun

1. a less common name for glycogen

Word History and Origins

Origin of animal starch¹

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

This substance, extracted in the form of a white powder, is really an animal starch.

From Project Gutenberg

Some of the sugars, for instance, the liver turns into a kind of animal starch (glycogen), which it stores away in its own cells.

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Thus we have animal starch, or glycogen, stored up in the liver.

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Animal starch found in liver, which may be changed into glucose.

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