"Fecula" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... gone even farther. They had dared suppress the wheat and shameless dealers were making almost all the Host with the fecula of potatoes. ...
— Against The Grain • Joris-Karl Huysmans
... naturally depends upon their yield in sugar, and what gives potatoes their value is their yield in fecula or starch, a product that serves to nourish man and animals and that is also used in the manufacture of alcohol and glucose. No account, however, is taken of this important coefficient in business transactions, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 • Various |
