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A quick googlesearch would've saved you from the indignity of publicly demonstrating your lack of knowledge.
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Love ya, Dino.
But I prefer to trust what I learned in my degree to what good old Google can tell me.
"Polymer" = "poly" many + "mer" unit. True, it does refer primarily to hydrocarbons, but anything with a repetitive molecular unit is a polymer - ditto with dimers ("two units" - a lot of proteins are dimers) or tetramers (ditto).
And starch is very organic - it's a giant polymer of covalently bonded glucose units, and since glucose is a molecule consisting exclusively of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen, then so is starch. Plastics, being crafted from crude oil, and thus primarily long-chain hydrocarbon molecules, are similarly known as "organic" molecules (organic referring to the fact they're heavy in nonmetals and primarily CHON, as opposed to "mineral" like metal oxides and the like).
My degree almost killed me. And now I've forgotten most of it. *wah*
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But I'm still cooler than you.
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Jury's out on that one.