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Farina

//fəˈɹiːnə// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Italian.
Noun
  1. 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. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    fine meal made from cereal grain especially wheat; often used as a cooked cereal or in puddings wordnet
  3. 3
    A particular grade of wheat meal, commonly used as hot breakfast cereal in North America. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A powdery, pale yellow, crystalline secretion consisting of flavonoids in Primula and other species. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    Hot breakfast cereal made from prepared farina in milk. countable, uncountable

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin farīna (“flour, meal”), from far (“kind of grain”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian Farina.

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