amylaceous

• Boiled in water or milk, and flavored to the palate with sugar, wine, and aromatics, it forms a very agreeable diet for invalids CEYLON MOSS (_Gracelaria_, or Gigartina, lichenoides_), a small and delicate fucus, is well known for the amylaceous property it possesses, and the large proportion of true starch it furnishes. —  The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise ; Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, ;c.; of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, ;c;.
• Therefore combinations of these fibers in any composition of non-amylaceous fiber (ligneous or woody fiber) will be dissolved, leaving the latter unharmed; the woody fibers remaining will prove suitable objects for examination under the microscope COTTON MIXED WITH LINEN Again, it might be important to know whether a certain pulp or composition contained flax in combination with cotton. —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886
• The saccharine, or amylaceous substances constitute the most abundant of the proximate constituents of plants. —  The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock
• _ -- Stomach-pump and emetics, carbonate of sodium, amylaceous fluids, gruel, arrowroot, starch, etc. —  Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
• Every textile amylaceous fiber is convertible into these forms, more or less, by strong sulphuric acid. —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886

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