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pentastarch

noun

Etymology

From penta- + starch.

  1. derived from *sterg-✻ — “stiff, rigid”
  2. inherited from *starkī✻ — “stiffness, rigidity, fortitude, strength”
  3. inherited from *stierċe✻ — “stiffness, rigidity, strength”
  4. inherited from starche
  5. prefixed as pentastarch — “penta + starch”

Definitions

  1. A hydroxyethyl starch with five hydroxyethyl groups out of each 11 hydroxyls.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pentastarch. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA