The fecula is the substance of bread, pastry and purees of all kinds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physiology of Taste] Reference

The roots of those which are perennial contain, besides fecula, which is their base, a resinous, acrid, and bitter principle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Household Management] Reference

Pure fecula is separated by art from a variety of plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

This process of ablution is repeated till the water no longer acquires anything from the fecula.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

It approaches more nearly to potato starch than to any other fecula, but its particles are larger.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

There is no doubt, however, that the quality of the water has a great deal of influence on the fecula.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

The large fleshy tubers of tacca, when scraped and frequently washed, yield a nutritious fecula resembling arrowroot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

This fecula hangs together in chains, quite unlike the ordinary appearance of arrowroot when seen under the microscope.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

A fecula is washed from the abundant pith, which is chemically a starch, very demulcent, and more digestible than that of rice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

The pods contain a large proportion of sweet fecula, and are frequently used by singers, being considered to improve the voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

With this fecula was mingled a mucilaginous juice of disagreeable flavor, but which it would be easy to get rid of by pressure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysterious Island] Reference

By means of a rose, c, water is sprinkled over the entire surface of the sieve and separates the fecula from the fibrous matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883] Reference

Fine white sago of the Moluccas; entirely resembling No. 3, only that it is purely white, owing to the complete edulcoration of the fecula of which it is made.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

This method has already been worked out with a variety of starchy materials, namely cassava, whole potatoes, potato wastes from industrial fecula works, and banana refuse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

(The Sedge Tribe.) They contain very little fecula or sugar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

& Ipiritu lanfto, regnum, potcntia & gloria in fecula feculorum.    From Wordnik.com.  [An historical account of the British or Welsh versions and editions of the Bible : With an appendix containing the dedications prefixed to the first impressions] Reference

After washing, allow the fecula to settle, then draw off the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

The fecula is more prompt in its action when it is mingled with sugar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physiology of Taste] Reference

Proust discovered that vegetable wax formed part of the green fecula of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

The whiteness and excellence of the fecula depends upon its being thoroughly washed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

The fecula is like arrow-root (Maranta arund.), and has been used for similar purposes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

The fecula is especially nutritious, especially as it contains fewer foreign principles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physiology of Taste] Reference

A qucnam per tranfada fecula cppugnata fuit i vel quando n. utata? autfaltcm diminu - ta?.    From Wordnik.com.  [De Scala Sancta ante Sancta Sanctorum in Laterano culta opusculum] Reference

This operation must be repeated until the fecula settles in a perfectly white and clean cake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

The fecula is not less fattening when in solution, as in beer, and other drinks of the same kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physiology of Taste] Reference

South Sea islands, has learned to dulcify the fecula, by pressing and separating it from its juice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

At dessert such persons should eat Savoy biscuits, and other things made up of eggs, fecula, and sugar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physiology of Taste] Reference

The tubers being reduced to pulp with water, the fecula subsides, and is washed and dried for commerce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture] Reference

Seeds, besides the embrio plant, contain (as we have already observed) fecula, oil, and a little mucilage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments] Reference

Most of the arrow-root, the fecula of the Maranta arudinacea, sold by druggists, is a mixture of potatoe starch and arrow-root.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy] Reference

According to Bigelow's examination, it contains a pungent, volatile oil, and a resin which communicate to alcohol the virtues of the plant, fecula, a gum, mucus, etc., op. cit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference