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amidin

amidin noun: starch modified by heat so as to become a transparent mass, like horn. It is soluble in cold water.

Noun

amidin (countable and uncountable, plural amidins)

  1. (archaic) Starch modified by heat so as to become a transparent mass, like horn. It is soluble in cold water.

Forms of amidin

pluralamidins

Origin of amidin

Borrowed from French amidine, from amido (“starch”), from Latin amylum.

Questions about amidin

What does amidin mean?
Amidin means starch modified by heat so as to become a transparent mass, like horn. It is soluble in cold water.
What part of speech is amidin?
Amidin is a noun.
What is the plural of amidin?
The plural of amidin is amidins.

Words near amidin in the dictionary

  1. amidest
  2. amidic
  3. amidicities
  4. amidicity
  5. amidification
  6. amidin
  7. amidine
  8. amidines
  9. amidinium
  10. amidiniumation
  11. amidiniumations

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