Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Made from, rich in, or consisting of starch.
- adjective Having a mealy or powdery texture.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting or made of meal or flour: as, a farinaceous diet, which consists of articles prepared from the meal or flour of the various species of corn or grain.
- Containing starch: as, farinaceous seeds.
- Pertaining to meal; of the nature of meal; mealy: as, a farinaceous taste or quality.
- Having a mealy appearance; covered with or as if with meal; characterized by something resembling meal: applied in pathology to certain eruptions in which the epidermis exfoliates in fine scales resembling farina.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Consisting or made of meal or flour.
- adjective Yielding farina or flour.
- adjective Like meal; mealy; pertaining to meal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Made from, or rich in,
starch orflour . - adjective Having a
floury texture;grainy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency
- adjective resembling starch
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Unfortunately, the nature of the blight which has seized upon this tuber has eluded the most careful inquiries; but it has been shown by well-conducted analyses that potatoes at their late prices are the most expensive kind of farinaceous food.
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The basis of all soup is stock, and in making stock we, of course, have to depend upon vegetables, fruit, or some kind of farinaceous food.
Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet A. G. Payne 1867
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For the transcriber, the collection is a treasure trove of little discoveries -- the antiquated use of "farinaceous" instead of today's "pasta"; the remarkable preponderance of oyster dishes; the revelation that steaks cost twenty-five cents, not twenty-five dollars.
The New York Public Library: All Hands on Deck: NYPL Turns to the Crowd to Develop Digital Collections The New York Public Library 2011
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The formal breakfast differed slightly from an early luncheon, except that the menu made up of was distinctly breakfast dishes: Toast, hot muffins, omelets and other preparations of eggs, delicate farinaceous foods, cafe au lait, etc.
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He regarded ‘the chief cause of corpulence as a diet with starchy and farinaceous elements’ which he said ‘was no less fattening when conveyed in drinks, such as beer’.
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He regarded ‘the chief cause of corpulence as a diet with starchy and farinaceous elements’ which he said ‘was no less fattening when conveyed in drinks, such as beer’.
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West of Egypt, couscous is the farinaceous starch.
“Want to do some Nasnas?” Ann Althouse 2009
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When there is a farinaceous sediment in the urine during fever, it indicates a protracted illness.
Aphorisms 2007
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But farinaceous sediments in the urine are bad, and still worse are the leafy; the white and thin are very bad, but the furfuraceous are still worse than these.
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On the tenth, no drink taken; comatose, sleep slight; alvine discharges the same; urine abundant, and thickish; when allowed to stand, the sediment farinaceous and white; extremities again cold.
Of The Epidemics 2007
fbharjo commented on the word farinaceous
farinaceous is also a word about the nature of relationship -starchy yet grainy
January 14, 2007
hernesheir commented on the word farinaceous
Panvocalic and then some.
October 29, 2009
dragonfox commented on the word farinaceous
I read this in Great Expectations by Dickens. Chapter 8.
February 18, 2010