animal starch

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsglycogen

   Broaderpolysaccharide

Questions about animal starch

What does animal starch mean?

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

What is another word for animal starch?

Close synonyms include glycogen. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is animal starch a common word?

animal starch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.