The Collaborative International Dictionary
Farinaceous \Far`i*na"ceous\, a. [L. farinaceus.]
Consisting or made of meal or flour; as, a farinaceous diet.
Yielding farina or flour; as, ffarinaceous seeds.
Like meal; mealy; pertaining to meal; as, a farinaceous taste, smell, or appearance.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"of or pertaining to flour or meal," 1640s, from Late Latin farinaceus, from Latin farina "flour, meal" (see farina).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Made from, or rich in, starch or flour. 2 Having a floury texture; grainy.
WordNet
adj. resembling starch [syn: starchlike, amylaceous, amyloid, amyloidal]
composed of or covered with relatively large particles; "granular sugar"; "gritty sand" [syn: coarse-grained, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy, sandy]
Usage examples of "farinaceous".
It is successfully grown in Australia and New Zealand, where there is no native esculent farinaceous root.
The lungs are satisfied with a provision of vegetable and farinaceous food.
Those who were so disgusted with this form of food that they had no appetite to partake of it, except in quantities insufficient to supply the waste of the tissues, were, of course, in the condition of men slowly starving, notwithstanding that the only farinaceous form of food which the Confederate States produced in sufficient abundance for the maintenance of armies was not withheld from them.
Preach and tabulate as you will, the English palate--which is the supreme judge--rejects this farinaceous makeshift.
Pumblechookâs premises in the High-Street of the market town, were of a peppercorny and farinaceous character, as the premises of a corn-chandler and seedsman should be.