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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.


farina

/ fəˈriːnə /

noun

  1. flour or meal made from any kind of cereal grain
  2. starch, esp prepared from potato flour


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Word History and Origins

Origin of farina1

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

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Word History and Origins

Origin of farina1

C18: from Latin fār spelt, coarse meal

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Example Sentences

He played the quintessential Farina role—a lovable schmuck—before the character passed away at the end of Season 2.

For the next five years, Farina actually stayed active in the police force while acting on the side, finally retiring in 1986.

Get Shorty Farina proves how unsettling and chilling an actor can be while simultaneously being, well, hilarious.

Farina Foods 3560 18th Street (415) 565-0360 www.farinafoods.com Do Exploring San Francisco can take you in many directions.

Food is largely made up of canned goods and the ever-present farina, a sort of tapioca flour.

The most important kinds of farina are noticed under their respective heads.

The root is dried and ground into flour, which, under the general name farina, is used all over the country.

He found an empty sack or bag, into which he hastily threw as much farina as he could carry without inconvenience.

I held it near the candle; it burnt, but did not smell like wax, and had the same smell when burning, as farina when it was burnt.

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