Farina

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  • noun. Fine meal prepared from cereal grain and various other plant products, often used as a cooked cereal or in pudding.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In a general sense, meal or flour. Specifically
  • noun. A soft, tasteless, and commonly white flour, obtained by trituration of the seeds of cereal and leguminous plants, and of some roots, as the potato. It consists of gluten, starch, and mucilage.
  • noun. A preparation of white maize in granular form, coarser than meal, but finer than hominy. It is used for puddings, etc.
  • noun. In botany, the pollen of flowers.
  • noun. In entomology, a mealy powder found on some insects. See farinose
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.
  • noun. Pollen.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. fine meal made from cereal grain especially wheat; often used as a cooked cereal or in puddings
  • Word Usage
    "She makes some stuff which she calls farina out of it, and grieves bitterly that she is no longer young and spry enough to gather it for herself along the shore."
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