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English

Pronunciation

\Far`i*na"ceous\


Etymology

From farinaceus

Adjective

  1. made from, or rich in starch or flour
  2. having a floury texture; grainy


See also


fa:farinaceous io:farinaceous ta:farinaceous te:farinaceous vi:farinaceous zh:farinaceous

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Farinaceous \Far`i*na"ceous\, a. [L. farinaceus.]
1. Consisting or made of meal or flour; as, a farinaceous
diet.
[1913 Webster]

2. Yielding farina or flour; as, ffarinaceous seeds.
[1913 Webster]

3. Like meal; mealy; pertaining to meal; as, a farinaceous
taste, smell, or appearance.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet farinaceous
adj 1: resembling starch [syn: starchlike, amylaceous, amyloid,
amyloidal]
2: composed of or covered with relatively large particles;
"granular sugar"; "gritty sand" [syn: coarse-grained, grainy,
granular, granulose, gritty, mealy, sandy]
Moby Dictionary
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


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