Starchy
['stɑːtʃɪ] or ['stɑrtʃi]
Definition
(adj.) rigidly formal; 'a starchy manner'; 'the letter was stiff and formal'; 'his prose has a buckram quality' .
(adj.) consisting of or containing starch; 'starchy foods' .
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Definition
(a.) Consisting of starch; resembling starch; stiff; precise.
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Examples
- Nothing like these starchy doctors for vanity! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- From the air, the leaves take carbon dioxide and water and transform them into starchy food; from the soil, the roots take water rich in mineral matters dissolved from the soil. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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