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ANIMAL STARCH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does animal starch mean?
• ANIMAL STARCH (noun)
The noun ANIMAL STARCH has 1 sense:
1. one form in which body fuel is stored; stored primarily in the liver and broken down into glucose when needed by the body
Familiarity information: ANIMAL STARCH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
One form in which body fuel is stored; stored primarily in the liver and broken down into glucose when needed by the body
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
animal starch; glycogen
Hypernyms ("animal starch" is a kind of...):
polyose; polysaccharide (any of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide molecules)
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