Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Covered with mealy dust or powder.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Yielding farina: as, farinose plants.
- In botany, covered with a meal-like powder, as the leaves of Primula farinosa and other plants.
- In entom.: Floury: applied to a white secretion found on various parts of the body in many Homoptera and a few other insects.
- Covered with the matter described above, as the abdomens of certain leaf-hoppers.
- Covered with minute dots resembling white or yellow powder, or with a fixed whitish powder on a dark surface, as spots on the elytra of certain beetles. Also
farinulent .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Yielding farina.
- adjective (Bot. & Zoöl.) Covered with a sort of white, mealy powder, as the leaves of some poplars, and the body of certain insects; mealy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Yielding or related to
farina ; as, farinose substances. - adjective botany (
zoology ) Covered with a sort of white, mealy powder, as the leaves of some poplars, and the body of certain insects; mealy.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Late Latin farīnōsus, mealy, from Latin farīna, farina; see farina.]
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Borrowed from Late Latin farīnōsus, from Latin farīna.
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