animal starch


nounBiochemistry.

Origin of animal starch

1
First recorded in 1855–60

Words Nearby animal starch

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How to use animal starch in a sentence

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

    A Practical Physiology | Albert F. Blaisdell
  • Some of the sugars, for instance, the liver turns into a kind of animal starch (glycogen), which it stores away in its own cells.

    A Handbook of Health | Woods Hutchinson
  • Thus we have animal starch, or glycogen, stored up in the liver.

    A Practical Physiology | Albert F. Blaisdell
  • animal starch found in liver, which may be changed into glucose.

    A Practical Physiology | Albert F. Blaisdell

British Dictionary definitions for animal starch

animal starch

noun
  1. a less common name for glycogen

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