THICKENER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thickener mean? 

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

1. any material used to thicken

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THICKENER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any material used to thicken

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

thickener; thickening

Context example:

starch is used in cooking as a thickening

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

material; stuff (the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object)

Derivation:

thicken (make thick or thicker)

thicken (make viscous or dense)

 Context examples 

Red seaweeds are also used as food thickeners and emulsifiers and in molecular biology experiments.

(Red seaweeds, including those in sushi, thrive despite ancestor's loss of genes, National Science Foundation)