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farina

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /fəˈɹiːnə/ / /fəˈɹaɪnə/

name

Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Farina.

  1. A surname from Italian.

noun

Etymology: Borrowed from Latin farīna (“flour, meal”), from far (“kind of grain”).

  1. A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.
  2. A particular grade of wheat meal, commonly used as hot breakfast cereal in North America.
  3. A powdery, pale yellow, crystalline secretion consisting of flavonoids in Primula and other species.
  4. Hot breakfast cereal made from prepared farina in milk.