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fa⋅ri⋅na

  [fuh-ree-nuh]
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–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
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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.]
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Word Origin & History

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

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
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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