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Starch vs Farinaceous - What's the difference?

starch | farinaceous |

As adjectives the difference between starch and farinaceous

is that starch is stiff; precise; rigid while farinaceous is made from, or rich in, starch or flour.

As a noun starch

is a widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted (as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) as 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.

As a verb starch

is to apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.

starch

English

(wikipedia starch)

Noun

  • (uncountable) A widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted (as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) as 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.
  • (nutrition, countable) Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.
  • (uncountable, figuratively) A stiff, formal manner; formality.
    • (Addison)
  • (countable) Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener

    • Derived terms

    * starchy * cornstarch * potato starch

    Verb

  • To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.
    • She starched her blouses.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Stiff; precise; rigid.
    • (Killingbeck)

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    farinaceous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Made from, or rich in, starch or flour.
  • * 1870 , Eustace Smith, On the Wasting Diseases of infants and children , Henry C. Lea (publisher), page 28:
    • The very fact that the secretion of saliva in the young child does not become established until the third month after birth, seems to indicate that before that age farinaceous articles of diet are unsuited to the infant, as saliva is one of the most potent agents in the digestion of starchy foods.
  • Having a floury texture; grainy.
  • * 2007 May 22, Victoria Summerley, “ It does us good to get our hands dirty]”, in [[w:The Independent, The Independent] Online:
    • In the Great Pavilion, the nurserymen and women have been employing their dark arts, too; coaxing agapanthus into bloom two months early, cosseting iris with wads of strategically placed cotton wool or touching up the farinaceous , fan-shaped fronds of a Bismarck palm with face powder.

    See also

    * farina