What does "pinole" mean?

A coarse flour made from ground toasted maize kernels, often mixed with herbs, which may be eaten by itself or incorporated into drinks.

Pinole

Common synonyms include: maize beverage, maize flour, maize meal, pinole beverage, pinole porridge, toasted cornmeal.

/piˈnoʊleɪ/ name, noun

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Noun

1
A coarse flour made from ground toasted maize kernels, often mixed with herbs, which may be eaten by itself or incorporated into drinks. countable, uncountable
"But all of them also called for obscure ingredients whole cacao beans and a toasted corn flour called pinole, for example."
2
meal made of finely ground corn mixed with sugar and spices wordnet

Proper Noun

"But all of them also called for obscure ingredients whole cacao beans and a toasted corn flour called pinole, for example."

From Mexican Spanish pinole, from Classical Nahuatl pinolli (“flour, ground maize or chia”).