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farinaceous, a.|færɪˈneɪʃəs|
[f. L. farīnāce-us, f. farīna (see prec.) + -ous. Cf. F. farinacé.]
1. Consisting or made of flour or meal.
1656[see farinous]. 1755Gentl. Mag. XXV. 8 It cannot be absolutely affirmed to be merely farinaceous, but it does not appear to be compounded of any animal substance. 1807–26S. Cooper First Lines Surg. (ed. 5) 81 During the symptomatic fever, a mild, vegetable farinaceous diet is proper. 1866Livingston Jrnl. (1873) I. xi. 278 Their farinaceous food creates a great craving for fish.
2. Containing or yielding flour or starch: starchy.
1667Phil. Trans. II. 485 A Farinaceous or Mealy Tree, serving to make bread of it. 1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet 322 Their Aliment ought to be light, of farinaceous vegetables. 1830M. Donovan Dom. Econ. I. 217 The greater fineness of the meal, and the less solubility of its farinaceous part. 1873E. Smith Foods 156 This large class of farinaceous seeds.
3. Of a mealy nature, resembling meal in texture or quality.
1664Phil. Trans. I. 10 One is a kind of Crystalline Stone, and almost all good Lead: the other not so rich and more farinaceous. 1796Withering Brit. Plants IV. 13 The granulations of the crust much larger, but equally soft and farinaceous. 1807J. E. Smith Phys. Bot. 81 The root becomes farinaceous, tasteless and inert. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 343 Cotyledons thick, fleshy or farinaceous.
4. Having a mealy appearance.
a. Finely comminuted, powdery; now only Path.: see quot. 1884.
1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 47 This farinaceous Seed of Wort. 1884Syd. Soc. Lex., Farinaceous, in Medicine, the term is applied to epidermal exfoliations which are pale and very minute, so as to resemble flour.
†b. Covered with farina or fine dust. Obs.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xv. 141 All farinaceous or mealy winged animals, as Butter-flies, and Moths. 1668Wilkins Real Char. 126 Crane Fly. Farinaceous wings; being covered with a mealy substance easily coming off upon a touch. 1829Loudon Cyclop. Plants 1016–7 Farinaceous outside, pink inside.
5. Characterized by flour: farinaceous city, farinaceous colony, playful names for Adelaide and South Australia, from the large export of wheat.
1873Trollope Austral. & N.Z. II. 184 [Adelaide] has also been nicknamed the Farinaceous City. 1902Daily Chron. 7 May 7/1 Before emigrating to the ‘farinaceous colony’. |