Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun animal_starch

1 sense of animal starch

Sense 1
glycogen, animal starch -- (one form in which body fuel is stored; stored primarily in the liver and broken down into glucose when needed by the body)
       => polysaccharide, polyose -- (any of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide molecules)