corn-starch

  • 31Corn cookie — A corn cookie is a variant of the traditional American sugar cookie. Rather than wheat flour, however, the corn cookie takes its color and flavor from the eponymous cornmeal with which it is made. Like their traditional counterparts, corn cookies …

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  • 32corn sugar — Sugar Sug ar, n. [OE. sugre, F. sucre (cf. It. zucchero, Sp. az[ u]car), fr. Ar. sukkar, assukkar, fr. Skr. [,c]arkar[=a] sugar, gravel; cf. Per. shakar. Cf. {Saccharine}, {Sucrose}.] 1. A sweet white (or brownish yellow) crystalline substance,… …

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  • 33starch — A high molecular weight polysaccharide built up of d glucose residues in α 1,4 linkage, differing from cellulose in the presence of α rather than β glucoside linkages, that exists in most plant tissues; converted into dextrin when subjected to… …

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  • 34corn — noun 1 (BrE) cereal crop (wheat, etc.) ADJECTIVE ▪ ripe ▪ green ▪ The corn is still green. ▪ young … OF CORN ▪ …

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  • 35corn — Ⅰ. corn1 (kôrn) n. 1. a) Any of numerous cultivated forms of a widely grown, usually tall annual cereal grass (Zea mays) bearing grains or kernels on large ears. b) The grains or kernels of this plant, used as food for humans and livestock or for …

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  • 36starch — [[t]stɑrtʃ[/t]] n. 1) a white, tasteless, solid carbohydrate, (C6H10O5)n, occurring in the form of minute granules in the seeds, tubers, and other parts of plants, and forming an important constituent of rice, corn, wheat, beans, potatoes, and… …

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  • 37corn flour — cornflour corn flour , corn flour corn flour . a flour or starch prepared from the grains of corn; it is used in cooking as a thickener. Syn: cornstarch. [WordNet 1.5] …

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  • 38starch syrup — noun : a syrup made from starch; especially : corn syrup * * * glucose (def. 2). * * * starch syrup, = glucose (def. 2). (Cf. ↑glucose) …

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  • 39corn gluten — noun gluten prepared from corn • Hypernyms: ↑gluten * * * noun : a protein rich product separated from starch in the wet milling process * * * gluten separated from corn during milling, used primarily as a livestock feed …

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  • 40starch — 1. noun /stɑrtʃ/ a) A widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted (as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) as a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a …

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