Term: starch: a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles
Candidate hypernym: polysaccharide: any of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide molecules → 1
Candidate hypernym: third person: pronouns and verbs that are used to refer to something other than the speaker or addressee of the language in which they occur → 0
Candidate hypernym: balsam woolly aphid: a variety of adelgid → 0
Candidate hypernym: ecstasy: a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; - Charles Dickens → 0
Candidate hypernym: beguine: music written in the bolero rhythm of the beguine dance → 0
Candidate hypernym: sciaenid fish: widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound → 0
Candidate hypernym: chin strap: a strap attached to a hat; passes under the chin and holds the hat in place → 0
Candidate hypernym: pleasing: the act of one who pleases → 0
Candidate hypernym: alcove: a small recess opening off a larger room → 0
Candidate hypernym: confession of judgment: a judgment entered after a written confession by the debtor without the expense of ordinary legal proceedings → 0
Candidate hypernym: hysteresis: the lagging of an effect behind its cause; especially the phenomenon in which the magnetic induction of a ferromagnetic material lags behind the changing magnetic field → 0