AMYLUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amylum mean? 

• AMYLUM (noun)
  The noun AMYLUM has 1 sense:

1. a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles

  Familiarity information: AMYLUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMYLUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

amylum; starch

Hypernyms ("amylum" is a kind of...):

polyose; polysaccharide (any of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide molecules)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "amylum"):

arum (starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root)

cassava; cassava starch; manioc; manioca (a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics)

arrowroot (a nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant)

cornflour; cornstarch (starch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener)

sago (powdery starch from certain sago palms; used in Asia as a food thickener and textile stiffener)

amyloid (a non-nitrogenous food substance consisting chiefly of starch; any substance resembling starch)

Otaheite arrowroot; Otaheite arrowroot starch (a starch obtained from the root of the pia)