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starchy

starchy

6 3.0
Food that contains a lot of starch, like potatoes or bread
  • adjective
  • /ˈstɑr.tʃi/
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  • The various starchy foods and fish are then put onto the plate.
  • starchy foods

Stay away from grains, stay away from the starchy carbs.

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Examples

  • Stay away from grains, stay away from the starchy carbs.

  • Vegetables were also dried stems, buds, and particularly starchy roots, such as cattail, thistle, licorice fern, and various lily corms.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • You got any more starchy food?

  • So the two main types of food that contain glucose are starchy and sweet foods.

  • A starchy, potato-like root that is very popular in my country.

  • I find that I need to have starchy carbs right around sunset with dinner.

    Blog text (11)
  • The diet in Cameroon is highly starchy, and as such, many female volunteers gain a lot of weight.

    Blog text (5)
  • Not the world's most nutritious food, but it's starchy and it fills the stomach.

    Blog text (9)
  • SABMiller then looked at cassava, a widely grown, starchy, drought-resistant root vegetable.

    Blog text (24)
  • For a balanced meal, it's important to include starchy foods like rice and pasta.

Synonyms

amylaceous
vsstarchy
  • Specialized
9.9

Containing starch, like potatoes or rice

is used when the item actually contains a lot of that thickening substance
starchlike
vsstarchy
6.0

Like starch in texture or in how it thickens

is about actually containing or being rich in that thickening substance

Antonyms

Not having starch, as in some foods or plants

How Starchy

starchy
6 3.0

Surface Forms

starchy positive

Morphology

starchy = starch (transparent) = starch + y

Formed by adding the adjectival suffix '-y' to 'starch', meaning 'containing or characterized by starch', which is directly inferable.

Etymology

The word starchy comes from the noun starch, the white powder found in foods like potatoes and bread. So starchy means 'containing starch' or rich in these kinds of foods.