starchy
- adjective
- /ˈstɑr.tʃi/
- The various starchy foods and fish are then put onto the plate.
- starchy foods
Stay away from grains, stay away from the starchy carbs.
- Stay away from grains, stay away from the starchy carbs.
- Meat, fish, fowl, eggs, nut seeds, vegetables, some fruit, some starchy tubers.
- And so this is the seed that has that brand skin on and then that kind of starchy endosperm.
- As I said, the starchy glue found in the pasta water makes it all come together.
- I would say removing starchy processed carbohydrates, mostly processed grains, pies, cakes, cookies, crackers, cereals, things like that, remove them.
- It's really unpleasant and super starchy vegetables.
- That does help for sure because it's quite, it's very crisp and like starchy feeling.
- But really the Spleen is supported by starchy foods, especially squash, things like sweet potatoes, butternut squash.
Examples
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Stay away from grains, stay away from the starchy carbs.
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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?
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So the two main types of food that contain glucose are starchy and sweet foods.
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A starchy, potato-like root that is very popular in my country.
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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.
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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.
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For a balanced meal, it's important to include starchy foods like rice and pasta.
Synonyms
Containing starch, like potatoes or rice
Like starch in texture or in how it thickens
Antonyms
How Starchy
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.