floridean starch

[ fluh-rid-ee-uhn ]

nounBiochemistry.
  1. the sugar-storing polysaccharide of red algae.

Origin of floridean starch

1
First recorded in 1900–05; from New Latin Florideæ (an order of algae) + -an

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