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fa⋅ri⋅na

[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, esp. potato starch.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME < L farīna meal, flour, equiv. to far emmer + -īna, fem. of -īnus -ine 1
fa·ri·na   (fə-rē'nə)   
n.  Fine meal prepared from cereal grain and various other plant products and often used as a cooked cereal or in puddings.

[Middle English, from Latin farīna, from far, a kind of grain; see bhares- in Indo-European roots.]

Farina

Fa*ri"na\, n. [L., meal, flour, fr. far a sort of grain, spelt; akin to E. barley.]

1. 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.

2. (Bot.) Pollen. [R.] --Craig.
Language Translation for : farina
Spanish: harina,
German: das Mehl,
Japanese: 小麦粉

farina 
1398, from L. farina "ground wheat, flour, meal," from far (gen. farris) "grits, a kind of grain." Hence, farinaceous (1656).

Main Entry: fa·ri·na
Pronunciation: f&-'rE-n&
Function: noun
: a fine meal of vegetable matter (as cereal grains) used chiefly forpuddings or as a breakfast cereal
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