What does the word farinaceous mean?
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Having the appearance or nature of farina. A term given to all articles of food which contain farina. The term Farinacea includes all those substances, called cerealia, legumina, &c., which contain farina, and are employed as nutriment. Hard's farinaceous food is fine wheat flour, which has been subjected to some heating process. Braden's farinaceous food is said to be wheat flour, baked. In Pathology, the epithet farinaceous, ( F.) farineux, is applied to certain eruptions, in which the epidermis exfoliates in small particles similar to farina.
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Pertaining to flour; starchy.
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Usage examples for farinaceous
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I have known some robust infants brought up on it, and on it along, without a particle of farinaceous food, or of any other food, in any shape or form whatever. – Advice to a Mother on the Management of her Children by Pye Henry Chavasse
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Another circumstance that attended the experiment was that, in all the various grasses and grain that were intended by our Creator as food for man or beast, the various oils that enter into their composition were so powerfully assimilated or combined with the other properties of the farinaceous plants, that the oil partook of the character of essential oil, and was not so easily evaporated as that of poisonous vegetables; and experience has proved that the same quantity of grass, steamed and given to the cattle, will produce more butter than when given in its dry state. – The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd
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At 8 A. M. coffee and bread; at ten a hearty breakfast of meat, eggs, curry and rice, vegetables and fruit; at 1 P. M. a luncheon, called " tiffin," of cold meats, bread and butter, potatoes, and tea; at five o'clock a regular dinner of soups, meats with relishes, farinaceous dishes, dessert, fruits, and coffee, and lastly, at 8 P. M., the evening meal of tea, bread and butter, and other light dishes. – The-Darrow-Enigma by Severy, Melvin Linwood
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