farina

[ fuh-ree-nuh ]

noun
  1. flour or meal made from cereal grains and cooked as cereal, used in puddings, soups, etc.

  2. Chiefly British. starch, especially potato starch.

Origin of farina

1
1350–1400; Middle English <Latin farīna meal, flour, equivalent to far emmer + -īna, feminine of -īnus-ine1

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farina

/ (fəˈriːnə) /


noun
  1. flour or meal made from any kind of cereal grain

  2. mainly British starch, esp prepared from potato flour

Origin of farina

1
C18: from Latin fār spelt, coarse meal

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