polysaccharide: starch. Storage form of carbohydrate in plants, plants use for energy Mainly in seeds, roots, and tubers-similar in structure to glycogen but fewer branches-potatoes and grains are major sources of starch.
Wiktionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: dustbowl (Noun) An area which abounds in dust and which is very dry. dustbowl (Noun) The central region of the United States during the 1930s. dustbowl (Noun) The 1930s period.
Although the Dust Bowl affected the entire Midwest, the worst of it was concentrated in the Oklahoma panhandle. It also severely affected the northern two-thirds of the Texas Panhandle, the northeastern part of New Mexico, most of southeastern Colorado, and the western third of Kansas.