- producing farina
- full of meal; mealy
- Biol. producing or covered with a powderlike substance
Origin of farinose
Late Latin farinosusfarinose
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farinose
adjective
BiologyCovered with mealy dust or powder: a farinose calyx.
Origin of farinose
Late Latin farīnōsus mealy from Latin farīna farina ; see farina .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Adjective
(comparative more farinose, superlative most farinose)
- Yielding or related to farina; as, farinose substances.
- (botany, zoology) Covered with a sort of white, mealy powder, as the leaves of some poplars, and the body of certain insects; mealy.
Origin
Borrowed from Late Latin farīnōsus, from Latin farīna.
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farinose - Medical Definition
adj.
Biology
Covered with mealy dust or powder: a farinose calyx.
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