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What is a fecula?

What is a fecula? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Starchy sediment extracted from plants, especially those which are used as food.
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The green fecula obtained by straining the expressed juices of the leaves and herbaceous parts of plants is of this character.
About twice as much water as fecula will bring the paste to proper consistency.
It is this fecula which serves for making the rouge employed by ladies.
Its solution bends the luminous rays in circumpolarisation to the right, whereas grape and fecula sugars bend it to the left.
The tubers being reduced to pulp with water, the fecula subsides, and is washed and dried for commerce.
By means of a rose, c, water is sprinkled over the entire surface of the sieve and separates the fecula from the fibrous matter.

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