farina

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: fa=ri=na

CIDE DICTIONARY

farina, n. [L., meal, flour, fr. far a sort of grain, spelt; akin to E. barley.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  Pollen.  Craig.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

farina, n.
1 the flour or meal of cereal, nuts, or starchy roots.
2 a powdery substance.
3 Brit. starch.

Derivative

farinaceous adj.

Etymology

L f. far corn

THESAURUS

farina

air pollution, attritus, bran, breakfast food, cereal, cornflakes, cosmic dust, crumb, crumble, dry cereal, dust, dust ball, efflorescence, fallout, filings, flour, frumenty, grits, groats, gruel, hasty pudding, hominy grits, hot cereal, kasha, kittens, lint, loblolly, meal, millet, mush, oatmeal, porridge, powder, puffed rice, puffed wheat, pussies, raspings, rolled oats, sawdust, smut, soot, wheatflakes

ROGET THESAURUS

farina

Pulverulence

N powderiness, pulverulence, sandiness, efflorescence, friability, powder, dust, sand, shingle, sawdust, grit, meal, bran, flour, farina, rice, paddy, spore, sporule, crumb, seed, grain, particle, limature, filings, debris, detritus, tailings, talus slope, scobs, magistery, fine powder, flocculi, smoke, cloud of dust, cloud of sand, cloud of smoke, puff of smoke, volume of smoke, sand storm, dust storm, pulverization, comminution, attenuation, granulation, disintegration, subaction, contusion, trituration, levigation, abrasion, detrition, multure, limitation, tripsis, filing, mill, arrastra, gristmill, grater, rasp, file, mortar and pestle, nutmeg grater, teeth, grinder, grindstone, kern, quern, koniology, powdery, pulverulent, granular, mealy, floury, farinaceous, branny, furfuraceous, flocculent, dusty, sandy, sabulous, psammous, arenose, arenarious, arenaceous, gritty, efflorescent, impalpable, lentiginous, lepidote, sabuline, sporaceous, sporous, pulverizable, friable, crumbly, shivery, pulverized, attrite, in pieces.