farina

Farina is defined as a flour or meal made from wheat or other grains, nuts and potatoes.

(noun)

An example of farina is a cooked breakfast cereal served with apricots and almonds.

See farina in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

flour or meal made from cereal grains (esp. whole wheat), potatoes, nuts, etc. and eaten as a cooked cereal
potato starch or other starch

Origin: ME < L, ground grain, meal < far, sort of grain, spelt < IE base *bhares- > OE bere, barley

See farina in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

Fine meal prepared from cereal grain and various other plant products and often used as a cooked cereal or in puddings.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English

Origin: , from Latin farīna

Origin: , from far, a kind of grain; see bhares- in Indo-European roots

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