farina(n = noun.food) - fine meal made from cereal grain especially wheat; often used as a cooked cereal or in puddings;
is a kind of meal

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. [1913 Webster]

2.  Pollen. Craig. [1913 Webster]

farina, n.
1 the flour or meal of cereal, nuts, or starchy roots.
2 a powdery substance.
3 Brit. starch.

Derivative:
farinaceous adj.

Etymology:
L f. far corn

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