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a white carbohydrate food substance found in potatoes, flour, rice, etc.; food containing this Topics Biologyc2澱粉;含澱粉的食物 - [uncountable]
starch prepared in powder form or as a spray and used for making clothes, sheets, etc. stiff (漿衣服、床單等用的)澱粉漿 Spray starch on the shirt collars before ironing them. 熨襯衫領要先噴些粉漿再熨。
Word OriginOld English (recorded only in the past participle sterced ‘stiffened’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch sterken, German stärken ‘strengthen’, also to stark.