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.
For example Classics Dorothea Lange and Arthur Rothstein bring the image of dust bowl in their writings, as well as John Steinbeck in his The Grapes of Wrath, or Woody Guthrie whose ballads, such as The Great Dust Storm gives us the feel of what its like to witness this disaster.