farina
noun/fəˈɹiːnə/ · /fəˈɹaɪnə/
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.
4
Hot breakfast cereal made from prepared farina in milk.
- Related terms
- farinaceous, farinaceously, farinose, farinulent