amylaceous

American  

[am-uh-ley-shuhs] / ˌæm əˈleɪ ʃəs /

adjective

1. of the nature of starch; starchy.

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amylaceous British  

/ ˌæmɪˈleɪʃəs /

adjective

1. of or resembling starch

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Etymology

Origin of amylaceous

First recorded in 1820–30; amyl- + -aceous

Example Sentences

The tubercles of such as produce them, are amylaceous and nutritive, as in those of the potato.

From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)

The meal or flour as imported in the form of a fine amylaceous powder.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

The saccharine, or amylaceous substances constitute the most abundant of the proximate constituents of plants.

From The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Cameron, Charles Alexander, Sir

The chemistry of the savage is reduced to the preparation of pigments, that of poisons, and the dulcification of the amylaceous roots, which the aroides and the euphorbiaceous plants afford.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von

By interrupting the blossoming, nature is obliged to carry elsewhere the saccharine or amylaceous matter, which would accumulate in the flowers of the maguey and in the fruit of the Mauritia.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Ross, Thomasina