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Definition of Starchiness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Starchiness
Literary usage of Starchiness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Heredity and Eugenics: A Course of Lectures Summarizing Recent Advances in by William Ernest Castle, John Merle Coulter, Charles Benedict Davenport, Edward Murray East, William Lawrence Tower (1912)
"The zygote is the new plant generation of which the seed (except the seed coat)
is but a resting stage of its development. starchiness and non- ..."
2. The Laws of Life: Principles of Evolution, Heredity and Eugenics. A Popular by William Marion Goldsmith (1922)
"In the case of the corn considered above, starchiness is dominant and non-
starchiness is recessive. Principle of Presence and ..."
3. Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries and Their Practical Application by Luther Burbank, John Whitson, Robert John, Henry Smith Williams, Luther Burbank Society (1914)
"Similarly starchiness versus sweetness of kernel constitutes another pair of
characters, in which starchiness is dominant . This being understood, we can ..."
4. Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries and Their Practical Application by Luther Burbank, John Whitson, Robert John, Henry Smith Williams, Luther Burbank Society (1914)
"Similarly starchiness versus sweetness of kernel constitutes another pair of
characters, in which starchiness is dominant. This being understood, we can ..."
5. How Plants are Trained to Work for Man by Luther Burbank (1921)
"Similarly, starchiness versus sweetness of kernel constitutes another pair of
characters, in which starchiness is dominant. This being understood, we can ..."
6. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1911)
"... to his idiosyncrasy respecting the discrimination between starchiness and
non-starchiness. The result is that while he underestimated the yellow starchy ..."
7. Breeding Crop Plants by Herbert Kendall Hayes, Ralph John Garber (1921)
"nuclei, there may be a range of from 0 to 6 factors for starchiness of the ...
The above starchiness is believed by Freeman to be quite different from the ..."
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