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Definition of Starchy
1. Adjective. Consisting of or containing starch. "Starchy foods"
Derivative terms: Starch
Antonyms: Starchless
2. Adjective. Rigidly formal. "His prose has a buckram quality"
Definition of Starchy
1. a. Consisting of starch; resembling starch; stiff; precise.
Definition of Starchy
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to starch. ¹
2. Adjective. Containing starch. ¹
3. Adjective. Pertaining to the quality of fabric starch as applied to fabric; stiff, hard; starched. ¹
4. Adjective. Pertaining to a similarly starched personality; not cruel, but filled with rectitudinity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Starchy
1. containing starch [adj STARCHIER, STARCHIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Starchy
Literary usage of Starchy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tropical Agriculture: The Climate, Soils, Cultural Methods, Crops, Live by Earley Vernon Wilcox (1916)
"Notwithstanding the fact that nearly all the familiar starchy food plants are
... A brief discussion of the more important starchy foods in general use in ..."
2. Tropical Agriculture: The Climate, Soils, Cultural Methods, Crops, Live by Earley Vernon Wilcox (1916)
"Notwithstanding the fact that nearly all the familiar starchy food plants are
... A brief discussion of the more important starchy foods in general use in ..."
3. 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)
"This zygote is starchy like the starchy parent because the presence of the ...
Half of them contain the starchy factor and half of them are without it. ..."
4. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1873)
"ON THE PHYSIOLOGICAL DYSPEPSIA FOR starchy FOOD IN INFANCY. By Dr. PROSPERO SONSINO,
Pisa, Editor of the Medical newspaper the " Imparziale," of Florence. ..."
5. Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal (1895)
"The Digestion of starchy Food in Infants.—The news comes from Berlin that Prof.
Heubner has recently made some experiments on the digestion of starchy foods ..."
6. Practical Dietetics with Reference to Diet in Disease by Alida Frances Pattee (1910)
"starchy BEVERAGES starchy drinks consist of cereals or cereal products, cooked
thoroughly in a large amount of water and strained ..."
7. Breeding Crop Plants by Herbert Kendall Hayes, Ralph John Garber (1921)
"Inheritance of starchy and sweet endosperm in maize. A, Ear of sweet corn with
wrinkled seeds; C, ear of flint corn with starchy seeds; B, immediate result ..."
8. Practical Dietetics with Reference to Diet in Disease by Alida Frances Pattee (1916)
"starchy BEVERAGES starchy drinks consist of cereals or cereal products, cooked
thoroughly in a large amount of water and strained before serving. ..."
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