farinaceousadj.
/ˌfarᵻˈneɪʃəs/, U.S. /ˌfɛrəˈneɪʃəs/ 1. Consisting or made of flour or meal.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > [adjective]
mealy1547
farinaceous1656
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > food made with flour > [adjective]
farinaceous1656
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Farinaceous or Farinous, mealy or full of meal, bemealed, beflowred.
1755 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 8/1 It cannot be absolutely affirmed to be merely farinaceous, but it does not appear to be compounded of any animal substance.
1819 S. Cooper First Lines Pract. Surg. (ed. 4) I. i. x. 104 During the symptomatic fever, a mild, vegetable farinaceous diet is proper.
1866 Livingston Jrnl. (1873) I. xi. 278 Their farinaceous food creates a great craving for fish.
2. Containing or yielding flour or starch: starchy.
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the world > food and drink > food > flour > [adjective]
flourena1300
floury1605
farinous1656
farinaceous1667
farinose1727
1667 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 485 A Farinaceous or Mealy Tree, serving to make bread of it.
1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iii. 322 Their Aliment ought to be light, of farinaceous Vegetables.
1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. I. vii. 217 The greater fineness of the meal, and the less solubility of its farinaceous part.
1873 E. Smith Foods 156 This large class of farinaceous seeds.
3. Of a mealy nature, resembling meal in texture or quality.
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1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 10 One is a kind of Crystalline Stone, and almost all good Lead: the other not so rich and more farinaceous.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) IV. 13 The granulations of the crust much larger, but equally soft and farinaceous.
1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 81 The root becomes farinaceous, tasteless and inert.
1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 343 Cotyledons thick, fleshy or farinaceous.
4. Having a mealy appearance.† b. Covered with farina or fine dust. Obsolete.
a. Finely comminuted, powdery; now only Pathology: see quot. 1884.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > granular texture > [adjective] > powdery or dusty
pulverous?a1425
powderyc1425
mealy1541
dusty1552
mully1570
pulverulentous1640
pulvereous1656
pulverulent1656
pulveral1657
powderal1662
farinaceous1664
smutty1667
snuffy1789
floury1830
pulverulous1841
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 47 This farinaceous Seed of Wort.
1884 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Farinaceous, in Medicine, the term is applied to epidermal exfoliations which are pale and very minute, so as to resemble flour.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > [adjective] > covered with a powdery layer
farinaceous1646
frosted1675
powdery1708
pollinose1826
pollinar1858
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xv. 141 All farinaceous or mealy winged animals, as Butter-flies, and Moths. View more context for this quotation
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 126 Crane Fly. Farinaceous wings; being covered with a mealy substance easily coming off upon a touch.
1836 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants (rev. ed.) 1016–7 Farinaceous outside, pink inside.
5. Characterized by flour: farinaceous city, farinaceous colony, playful names for Adelaide and South Australia, from the large export of wheat.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [noun] > in Australia > Adelaide
farinaceous city1873
the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Australasia > [noun] > Australia > South Australia
farinaceous colony1902
1873 A. Trollope Austral. & N.Z. II. 184 [Adelaide] has also been nicknamed the Farinaceous City.
1902 Daily Chron. 7 May 7/1 Before emigrating to the ‘farinaceous colony’.
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