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Definition: Amylum |
AmylumNoun1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: AmylumSynonym: starch (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: starch (food & agriculture, medicine). |
Crosswords: Amylum |
| Etymologies containing "amylum": Amylobacter. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
amylum | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "amylum"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | amylum (starch), stivelse (starch). (various references) | |
Dutch | amylum (starch), zetmeel (fecula, starch, starch flour). (various references) | |
French | amidon. (various references) | |
German | Amylum pulvis (starch), Amylum (starch), Staerkemehl (starch), Staerke (starch, strength). (various references) | |
Greek | άμυλο (starch). (various references) | |
Italian | amido (starch). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amylumay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | amido (cornflour, farina). (various references) | |
Spanish | almidón (starch). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "amylum": amylums. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "amylum": paramylum. (additional references) | |
Words containing "amylum": paramylums. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-m-m-u-y" | |
-1 letter: malmy. | |
-2 letters: alum, amyl, malm, maul. | |
-3 letters: amu, lam, lay, lum, may, mum, umm, yam, yum. | |
-4 letters: al, am, ay, la, ma, mm, mu, my, um, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-m-m-u-y" | |
+1 letter: amylums. | |
+3 letters: immutably, paramylum, summarily. | |
+4 letters: communally, immaculacy, immaturely, paramylums. | |
+5 letters: communality, multifamily, myelomatous, summability, unmemorably. | |
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