Meaning of FARINACEOUS
| Pronunciation: | | `faru'neyshus
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | [adj] composed of or covered with relatively large particles; "granular sugar"; "gritty sand" |
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| | Synonyms: | | coarse, coarse-grained, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy, sandy |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Far`i*na"ceous\, a. [L. farinaceus.]
1. Consisting or made of meal or flour; as, a farinaceous
diet.
2. Yielding farina or flour; as, ffarinaceous seeds.
3. Like meal; mealy; pertainiing to meal; as, a farinaceous
taste, smell, or appearance.
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Containing starch grains; mealy; resembling flour. |
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| | Related Terms: | | botanic, branny, bulbous, cereal, chalklike, chalky, comminute, comminuted, crushed, detrital, detrited, disintegrated, dusty, efflorescent, fine, flaky, floury, fruitlike, fruity, furfuraceous, gone to dust, grated, ground, herbaceous, herbal, herbose, herbous, herby, impalpable, leguminose, leguminous, levigated, mealy, milled, pestled, plantlike, powdered, powdery, pulverant, pulverized, pulverulent, radicated, radiciform, radicular, reduced to powder, rhizoid, rootlike, scaly, scobicular, scobiform, scurfy, sharded, shredded, triturated, tuberous, vegetable, vegetal, vegetarian, vegetational, vegetative, weedy |
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