farinaceous : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: farinaceous	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for farinaceous
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
farinaceous adj resembling starch [syn: starchlike, amylaceous, amyloid, amyloidal, farinaceous] composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency; "granular sugar"; "the photographs were grainy and indistinct"; "it left a mealy residue" Synonym(s): farinaceous, coarse-grained, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Farinaceous \Far`ina"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.