farina

fa·ri·na  (f-rn)

n.

Fine meal prepared from cereal grain and various other plant products and often used as a cooked cereal or in puddings.

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[Middle English, from Latin farna, from far, a kind of grain; see bhares- in Indo-European roots.]

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farina [fəˈriːnə]

n

1. (Cookery) flour or meal made from any kind of cereal grain

2. (Cookery) Chiefly Brit starch, esp prepared from potato flour

[from Latin fār spelt, coarse meal]

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Noun

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farina - fine meal made from cereal grain especially wheat; often used as a cooked cereal or in puddings meal - coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse