cornstarch

See also: corn starch

English

Alternative forms

• cornflour (UK)

Etymology

corn +‎ starch

Noun

cornstarch (usually uncountable, plural cornstarches)

1. A very fine starch powder derived from corn (maize) used in cooking as a thickener, to keep things from sticking, or as an anti-caking agent.

Translations

very fine starch powder

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 粟粉 (suk¹ fan²)

  Mandarin: 玉米澱粉／玉米淀粉 (zh) (yùmǐ diànfěn), 玉米淀粉 (zh) (yùmǐ diànfěn), 玉米粉 (zh) (yùmifěn)

• Danish: majsstivelse c
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: maissitärkkelys
• French: maïzena (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Galician: maicena (gl) f
• German: Maisstärke f
• Greek: καλαμποκάλευρο (el) n (kalampokálevro)
• Hungarian: kukoricakeményítő
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 옥수수 전분 (oksusu jeonbun)
• Polish: maizena (pl) f
• Portuguese: amido de milho m, maisena (pt) f
• Slovak: kukuričný škrob
• Spanish: maicena (es) f, harina de maíz f, fécula (es) f, almidón (es) f, maizena f

See also

• baby powder

Further reading

• cornstarch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia