farina
A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of…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.
Meaning
4 senses(countable, uncountable)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.
fine meal made from cereal grain especially wheat; often used as a cooked cereal or in puddings
(countable, uncountable)A particular grade of wheat meal, commonly used as hot breakfast cereal in North America.
(countable, uncountable)A powdery, pale yellow, crystalline secretion consisting of flavonoids in Primula and other species.
(countable, uncountable)Hot breakfast cereal made from prepared farina in milk.
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
Borrowed from Latin farīna (“flour, meal”), from far (“kind of grain”).Borrowed from Latin farīna (“flour, meal”), from far (“kind of grain”).
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Forms
plural: farinasSynonyms
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4 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable