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91white food — n. Processed foods such as white sugar and all purpose flour, or starchy foods such as potatoes, rice, and pasta. Example Citations: Not a published diet with its own guru, no white is a word of mouth phenomenon. A woman across from me at the… …
92stiff — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. rigid, inflexible, firm, non fluid; strong, brisk; difficult, hard; severe, excessive; formal, unreserved; awkward, stilted. See hardness, severity, affectation, inelegance, restraint, pride.Ant.,… …
93stiff — [adj1] hard, inflexible annealed, arthritic, benumbed, brittle, buckram, cemented, chilled, congealed, contracted, creaky, firm, fixed, frozen, graceless, hardened, immalleable, impliable, incompliant, indurate, inelastic, jelled, mechanical,… …
94cocoyam — noun 1. edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants • Syn: ↑taro, ↑dasheen, ↑eddo • Hypernyms: ↑root • Part Holonyms: ↑taro, ↑taro plant, ↑ …
95dasheen — noun 1. edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants • Syn: ↑taro, ↑cocoyam, ↑eddo • Hypernyms: ↑root • Part Holonyms: ↑taro, ↑taro plant, ↑ …
96kudzu vine — noun fast growing vine from eastern Asia having tuberous starchy roots and hairy trifoliate leaves and racemes of purple flowers followed by long hairy pods containing many seeds; grown for fodder and forage and root starch; widespread in the… …
97man-of-the-earth — noun 1. tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato • Syn: ↑wild potato vine, ↑wild sweet potato vine, ↑manroot, ↑scammonyroot, ↑Ipomoea panurata,… …
98Pyrrophyta — noun a division of lower plants comprising unicellular and biflagellate algae that form starchy compounds • Syn: ↑phylum Pyrrophyta • Hypernyms: ↑phylum • Member Holonyms: ↑Monera, ↑kingdom Monera, ↑Prokayotae, ↑ …
99soft wheat — noun wheat with soft starch kernels used in pastry and breakfast cereals • Hypernyms: ↑wheat * * * noun : a wheat with soft starchy kernels that are high in starch but typically low in gluten and yield a weak flour especially suitable for pastry… …
100Amylaceous — Am y*la ceous, a. [L. amylum starch, Gr. ?. See {Amidin}.] Pertaining to starch; of the nature of starch; starchy. [1913 Webster] …
