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floridean starch

[ fluh-rid-ee-uhn ]

noun

, Biochemistry.
  1. the sugar-storing polysaccharide of red algae.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of floridean starch1

First recorded in 1900–05; from New Latin Florideæ (an order of algae) + -an ( def )

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