An edible fine-grained starch obtained from the tuberous roots of various plants (esp. Maranta arundinacea), used in cooking and food manufacture…

A kind of starch obtained from Iceland moss and other lichens.

a water-soluble starch occurring in lichens which yields glucose on hydrolysis.

Proprietary name for an acetylated starch made by heating dry starch with glacial acetic acid and formerly used as a substitute for gelatine and…