farinaceous

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: far=i=na=ceous

CIDE DICTIONARY

farinaceous, a. [L. farinaceus.].

•  Consisting or made of meal or flour; as, a farinaceous diet.  [1913 Webster]
•  Yielding farina or flour; as, ffarinaceous seeds.  [1913 Webster]
•  Like meal; mealy; pertaining to meal; as, a farinaceous taste, smell, or appearance.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

farinaceous

botanic, branny, bulbous, cereal, chalklike, chalky, comminute, comminuted, crushed, detrital, detrited, disintegrated, dusty, efflorescent, fine, flaky, floury, fruitlike, fruity, furfuraceous, gone to dust, grated, ground, herbaceous, herbal, herbose, herbous, herby, impalpable, leguminose, leguminous, levigated, mealy, milled, pestled, plantlike, powdered, powdery, pulverant, pulverized, pulverulent, radicated, radiciform, radicular, reduced to powder, rhizoid, rootlike, scaly, scobicular, scobiform, scurfy, sharded, shredded, triturated, tuberous, vegetable, vegetal, vegetarian, vegetational, vegetative, weedy

ROGET THESAURUS

farinaceous

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.