Lacking starch or not containing starch; also used to describe certain biological states without starch.
From Greek 'a-' (without) and 'amylon' (starch), literally meaning 'without starch.' Used historically in botany and biology to describe plant tissues or organisms that don't accumulate starch.
In plant biology, amyous seeds would be unusual—most seeds pack starch as their main energy source for germination, so finding an amyous seed would be a major curiosity requiring investigation of alternative energy storage.
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