ANIMAL STARCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does animal starch mean? 

• ANIMAL STARCH (noun)
  The noun ANIMAL STARCH has 1 sense:

1. one form in which body fuel is stored; stored primarily in the liver and broken down into glucose when needed by the body

  Familiarity information: ANIMAL STARCH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANIMAL STARCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One form in which body fuel is stored; stored primarily in the liver and broken down into glucose when needed by the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

animal starch; glycogen

Hypernyms ("animal starch" is a kind of...):

polyose; polysaccharide (any of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide molecules)