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farina|fəˈraɪnə, fəˈriːnə|
See also ferine, farinha.
[a. L. farīna, f. far corn. Cf. F. farine.]
1. The flour or meal of any species of corn, nut, or starchy root.
[1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. lxvii. (1495) 643 Mele is properly called farina whan the corne is well grounde. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 29 The Meale was called Farina.] 1800tr. Lagrange's Chem. II. 265 The farina of wheat does not give carbonate of lime by incineration. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 133 Two scruples of the farina of the Croton nut should be given in a little gruel. 1876Harley Mat. Med. 316 Starch is the farina of seeds and soft cellular roots and stems.
b. A powdery substance, dust.
1707Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 33 A white substance which we call Farina (Meal) to nourish the new-born Plant. 1764J. Grainger Sugar Cane iv. 534 note, Small seeds, covered with a red farina. 1783J. C. Smyth in Med. Commun. I. 194 Some have the surface covered with a fine white powder, or farina. 1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 32 Rub off the farina, should any adhere.
c. A preparation of maize used for puddings.
2. In various scientific uses.
a. Bot. = Pollen.
1721Bradley Wks. Nat. 27 The Farina of each..Plant. 1770–4A. Hunter Georg. Ess. (1803) I. 486 Impregnated by the farina of the male [plant]. 1861Sat. Rev. 15 June 619 The bee and its congeners..by carrying the fructifying farina from flower to flower, convert flowers into fruit.
b. Chem. A fine white powder obtained from cereals, the potato, etc.; starch.
1813Sir H. Davy Agric. Chem. i. (1814) 11 Farina or the pure matter of starch. 1830M. Donovan Dom. Econ. I. 345 This white matter will at length subside: it may be collected on a filter and dried: it is then starch or farina.
c. Entom. A mealy powder found on some insects.
1828Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. II. 327 Body cylindrical, brown, covered with farina.
d. Geol. fossil farina (see quot. 1859).
1816P. Cleaveland Min. & Geol. (ed. 2) I. 170 Fossil farina..appears in thin, white crusts..attached to the lateral or lower surfaces of beds of shell limestone, &c. 1859Page Handbk. Geol. Terms, Fossil Farina, a mealy-looking infusorial or microphytal earth—the Berg-mahl of the Swedes and Laplanders.
3. Comb. farina-boiler, U.S., a utensil used for cooking farinaceous articles. (Cent. Dict.) |