Meanings (ES + gloss)
almidón • fécula
A widely diffused vegetable substance, found especially in seeds, bulbs and tubers, as extracted (e.g. from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) in the form of a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.
Meronym: saccharide
The various elements found in food are the following: Starch, sugar, fats, albumen, mineral substances, indigestible substances.
almidón • fécula
Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.
almidón • fécula
Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener.
You're the starch in my collar / You're the lace in my shoe / You will always be my necessity / I'd be lost without you
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