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.
The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion (the Aeolian processes) caused the phenomenon.