farina
/fəˈɹiːnə/ noun, proper noun
Forms farinas
- noun 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.
- noun A particular grade of wheat meal, commonly used as hot breakfast cereal in North America.
- noun (botany) A powdery, pale yellow, crystalline secretion consisting of flavonoids in Primula and other species.
- noun Hot breakfast cereal made from prepared farina in milk.
- proper noun A surname from Italian.
Synonyms
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin farīna (“flour, meal”), from far (“kind of grain”).
Borrowed from Italian Farina.
Webster’s 1913
- noun 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.
- noun Pollen. [R.] Craig.
Etymology [L., meal, flour, fr. far a sort of grain, spelt; akin to E. barley.]
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “farina”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details