Farinaceous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Farinaceous \Far`i*na"ceous\, a. [L. farinaceus.]
     1. Consisting or made of meal or flour; as, a farinaceous
        diet.
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     2. Yielding farina or flour; as, ffarinaceous seeds.


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     3. Like meal; mealy; pertaining to meal; as, a farinaceous
        taste, smell, or appearance.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  farinaceous
       adj 1: resembling starch [syn: {starchlike}, {amylaceous}, {amyloid},
               {amyloidal}]
       2: composed of or covered with relatively large particles;
          "granular sugar"; "gritty sand" [syn: {coarse-grained}, {grainy},
           {granular}, {granulose}, {gritty}, {mealy}, {sandy}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  61 Moby Thesaurus words for "farinaceous":
     botanic, branny, bulbous, cereal, chalklike, chalky, comminute,
     comminuted, crushed, detrital, detrited, disintegrated, dusty,
     efflorescent, fine, flaky, floury, fruitlike, fruity, furfuraceous,
     gone to dust, grated, ground, herbaceous, herbal, herbose, herbous,
     herby, impalpable, leguminose, leguminous, levigated, mealy,
     milled, pestled, plantlike, powdered, powdery, pulverant,
     pulverized, pulverulent, radicated, radiciform, radicular,
     reduced to powder, rhizoid, rootlike, scaly, scobicular, scobiform,
     scurfy, sharded, shredded, triturated, tuberous, vegetable,
     vegetal, vegetarian, vegetational, vegetative, weedy