| In many countries, it is cultivated for its starchy tubers, sometimes called air potatoes or Chinese yams. |
| In the tropics, you can still find other, less desirable banana varieties, mainly grown as a starchy food staple rather than a sweet treat. |
| And while yams are dry and starchy and can make a good chip, they contain little to no beta-carotene or vitamin A, and so are less nutritious. |
| The noodles were starchy and overcooked, so much so that in places they had welded together into a solid lump. |
| It's bad enough having to gnaw on the inedible beef au jus and starchy carrot sticks. |
| Our culinary forebears hired starchy German ladies to feed their children, and tended to regard a pot of boiled lima beans as a gourmet event. |
