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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
semolina
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▪ Add the flour, semolina and currants and stir into the batter with a wooden spoon.
▪ At seven-thirty an officer brought in a tray with a bowl of semolina mixed with stewed dry fruit.
▪ Children still sing skipping songs about soggy semolina though I can't remember semolina being served for over twenty years.
▪ Cook's notes Cous cous is flour coated grains of semolina, and makes an interesting change from rice or pasta.
▪ Maybe they genuinely like their kind of aural semolina.
▪ We nearly always had milk pudding, rice pudding, semolina or some other stodge.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Semolina

Semolina \Sem`o*li"na\, n. [It. semolino, from semola bran, L. simila the finest wheat flour. Cf. Semoule, Simnel.] The purified fine, hard parts of durum wheat, derived mostly from the endosperm, rounded by the attrition of the millstones, -- used in cookery, such as in the preparation of Italian pasta.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
semolina

meal from hard kernels of wheat, 1797, alteration of Italian semolino "grits; paste for soups," diminutive of semola "bran," from Latin simila "the finest flour," probably from the same Semitic source as Greek semidalis "the finest flour" (compare Assyrian samidu, Syrian semida "fine meal").

Wiktionary
semolina

n. 1 Coarse grains produced at an intermediate stage of wheat flour milling. 2 Such grains, usually from durum or hard wheat, used in the preparation of couscous and various sweet dishes. 3 semolina pudding

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semolina

n. milled product of durum wheat (or other hard wheat) used in pasta

Wikipedia
Semolina

Semolina is the coarse, purified wheat middlings of durum wheat used in making pasta, breakfast cereals, puddings, and couscous. The term semolina is also used to designate coarse middlings from other varieties of wheat, and from other grains, such as rice and maize.

Semolina (moth)

Semolina is a genus of moth in the family Cosmopterigidae. It contains only one species, Semolina leucotricha, which is found on Rapa Iti.

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Usage examples of "semolina".

And being boys, they were, of course, quite unable to tell you and your sisters apart and called all four of you Slimy Semolina impartially.

There was a roast-chestnut smell of semolina being parched, with accents of garlic and strange herbs smoldering.

I daresay they are as nice to them as semolina and ground rice are to you.

He stood on a chair to explore the packets of semolina, marzipan and candied peel, and the stack of brightly-coloured jellies in cellophane wrappers with the Coop trademark printed on them.

When couscous is formed by hand, the artisan places coarse semolina flour on a broad, round tray, adding small amounts of water and fine semolina flour as she slowly rubs the surface of the mixture with her palms in a repeated circular motion.

Soon the fine semolina and water begin to collect around the grains of coarse semolina, and little balls of couscous begin to appear.

A tajine is traditionally cooked in a clay vessel over fire, sometimes at the bottom of a couscousiere, where its vapors steam the semolina grains called couscous.