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farinaceous - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'farinaceous' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Farinaceous [ a.]
- Consisting or made of meal or flour; as, a farinaceous diet.
- Yielding farina or flour; as, ffarinaceous seeds.
- Like meal; mealy; pertainiing to meal; as, a farinaceous taste, smell, or appearance.

Meaning of 'farinaceous' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . farinaceous [ s]
Meaning (1):
- composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency
Example in sentence:
  • granular sugar;
  • it left a mealy residue;
  • the photographs were grainy and indistinct